Mahouz Inan

loss through the conflict and it's more than 8-900 families now and there is the growing demand the growing momentum to achieve a lasting peace we are not willing to compromise for a ceasefire or to prepare for the next war no we are preventing the next war and we are happy to talk to everyone and we think the future is peace is one of the tools to raise those messages and to bring them to the public

So I was born and raised in Kibbutz Niram.

It's about a mile away from Gaza.

My father was born in this kibbutz.

My grandparents established it at the beginning of 1941.

They were both immigrants from Eastern Europe, Bessarabia.

feeling the earth start shaking beneath them as the Nazi regime was gaining more and more power.

And they were within the Zionist movement, of course.

And together with my parents, my mom's grandparents, they both, from both sides, they established two kibbutzes in the Negev, maybe 10 miles away from each other.

And that's the community where I was born and raised.

And we were always...

Learn to believe that there is going to be another war.

But the next war will be the last war that will gain us with security and safety.

And there is always another war.

And I remember there was another cycle of violence in 2021.

And again, the Israeli government and generals said,

promised us that Hamas got no tunnels anymore and that its military power is destroyed and they are deterred and security and safety was brought to the Gaza envelope communities.

And me and my family, and unfortunately my parents too, we were fooled to believe in this promise.

So when October 7th happened, I wasn't surprised because Hamas on this day, Hamas was doing exactly what was written in his charter to destroy, to kill, and to fight with Israel.

And it was the Israeli government that betrayed in my family, in our communities.