Eli (Elie) Sharabi

My pleasure.

Thank you very much.

We were in our house in Kibbutz Be'erim, me, my wife, my two daughters.

On October 7th morning, we had alone in the kibbutz, and we'd been in a safe room.

Four hours later,

10 terrorists from Hamas arrived to our house, invaded to our house and kidnapped me and murdered my wife and my two daughters.

They are British citizens and murdered them with their British passport in their hands.

And I was kidnapped to Gaza.

and I've been there for 491 days most of them 440 days from them I've been in Hamas tunnels 50 meters underground

It was awful.

It was, you know, the worst thing I could ever imagine.

You know, for 491 days, it was my hope to see them running towards me and hugging me.

And I promised them I'll come back and I will survive for them.

And unfortunately, the social worker from the IDF announced me that only my mother and my sister waiting for me.

And they will tell me what happened.

And of course, she didn't need to tell me anything because I understood the worst case, the worst scenario happened for me.

And since then, you know, this loss and the grief, they are with me every moment of my day.

But I decided it would be the long side of my life and not the start of my life.

The people need to understand that Hamas is a terror organization, very fundamentalistic jihad.

They have no boundaries, not at all.