The Death of the Siman Tov Family

On Oct. 7th 2023 Hamas launched a murderous rampage on the Israelis near Gaza and they spared nobody in their rampage.  They killed men, women, & children without distinction, and in some cases, they slaughtered entire families.  Such was the case for the Siman Tov family.  Yonatan Kedem Siman Tov, his wife Tamar, their twin 6-year-old daughters Shahar & Arbel as well as their 4-year-old son Omer were all killed by Hamas terrorists, along with Yonatan's 70-year-old mother Carol.  



Yonatan and his family resided in the Nir Oz kibbutz in Southern Israel, a residential community of approximately 400 people where Yonatan worked as an operations manager and wheat grower for the small community.  Unfortunately, Nir Oz is situated only 3 km from the Gaza border, which was well within range of the Hamas attack.  Despite their close proximity to Gaza, nobody thought that an attack like what happened on Oct. 7th would ever take place.  Tragically, this was not the case.  When the attack began on Oct. 7th Yonatan & his family took shelter from the Hamas rockets inside their saferoom.  Yonatan initially phoned his sister Ranae Butler and informed them that they were OK, but that would soon change.  An hour later Hamas militants entered their home, trapped their family inside the saferoom, and proceeded to burn down their home.  In his final text message to Ranae Yonatan typed: "They're here.  They're burning us.  We're suffocating.  A few moments later, the entire family was dead.  The entire family was slaughtered for the crime of being Jewish, and sadly there were over 1300 more who met this fate on this tragic day.  

After a heinous attack like this, any military in the world would have attacked with a vengeance, but Israel showed amazing restraint, sending messages to Gazans that they would keep a safe passage open to enable them to leave the conflict zone of Northern Gaza and flee to the relative safety of southern Gaza.  Hamas gave no such mercy to those that they slaughtered on Oct. 7th.  They attacked without warning, without provocation, and slaughtered without distinction.  


Sources:

Singh, Ritu.  "'We are Suffocating': Chilling Texts of Israeli American Family Before Being Killed by Hamas.  NDTV World.  Oct. 15, 2023.  Accessed from https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/israel-gaza-war-we-are-suffocating-chilling-texts-of-israeli-american-family-before-being-killed-by-hamas-4483247

Fellner, Carrie.  "They Told Friends in Sydney They Were Safe.  Then This Entire Family Was Massacred."  The Sydney Morning Herald.  Oct. 10, 2023.  Accessed from  https://www.smh.com.au/world/middle-east/they-told-friends-in-sydney-they-were-safe-then-this-entire-family-was-massacred-20231009-p5eayv.html



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