Three years after Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed some 1,200 people and took 251 hostage, the pain felt by some of the youngest victims of the attack and the war it sparked in Gaza has not diminished.
Ofri Bibas Levy said the deaths of her family members bring the spotlight back to the spotlight every October 7.
Her brother Yarden and his wife Shiri, as well as sons Ariel, 4, and Kfir, 9 months, were kidnapped by Hamas militants from Kibbutz Nir Oz three years ago. courtyard bibas Released in February 2025. Shiri and her children never returned home; they were killed imprisoned.
“I’m still living today, every day, every second,” Bibas Levy told CBS News. “Everything else seems pointless.”
She said the attack had shattered the country’s collective psyche.
“Losing trust, losing security, feeling like people can come into my house and kill my family and you’re not safe anywhere,” she said.
She was still angry and said she wanted revenge.
“To me, every member of those groups, those terrorist groups, should be killed,” she said.
But she still hopes for a better future and believes “the conflict can be resolved.”
Bibas Levy said she wishes she could tell her 7-year-old daughter she was safe at home without feeling like she was lying. The 7-year-old daughter asked if anyone was coming to kidnap her.
Asked about recent reports that Israeli leaders failed to act on warnings before the attacks, she said it was “like a knife to the heart, twisting it again and again.”
“Why don’t they do everything they can to save my family?” she asked.
Her message three years later read: “The world forgets too quickly what happened here.”
On the other side of the Gaza border, CBS News spoke with Hind Rajab’s grandmother.
She said the 5-year-old Palestinian girl’s presence is felt every moment by her family.
hind legs are Trapped in car under Israeli fire January 2024 in Gaza City. The recording of her desperate plea for help to Palestinian caregivers can be heard around the world. Her body was found 12 days later.
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In early October, her namesake grandmother held up Hind’s notebook and the kindergarten graduation gown she wore during an interview with CBS News.
“We can’t forget Hinde because what happened to her was so difficult,” she said. “She was an innocent child who, like other children in Gaza, had her whole life ahead of her.”
She remembers her granddaughter as a little girl who “loved life, had a talent for drawing” and dreamed of becoming a doctor.
“One cannot forget their child, who is their own flesh and blood,” she told CBS News. “Even if a lifetime passes, Hind will remain in our memories.”
The Israeli military announced in August that launch criminal investigation Cinder was killed, but her grandmother had no hope.
“We do not expect justice to be delivered correctly or unequivocally by this enemy who intentionally kills our children every day,” she said.