Among the many festival-goers killed had been Haodya and Tair – 27 and 23 years outdated – nieces of Asaf Pozniak, one of many founders of the Hostages and Lacking Households Discussion board.
Pozniak, 30, stated he accepted his nieces might by no means come again, however there have been “all the time lives that may be saved”.
“We should do every part we are able to to maintain up the strain on the worldwide group and the Israeli authorities to carry them house now,” he stated.
Michael Levi has taken Pozniak at his phrase and now devotes his waking hours to assembly politicians and diplomats in a bid to get the remaining hostages freed.
Levi’s brother Or, 33, is amongst these held captive.
Surrounded by eucalyptus timber with the fixed hum of drones and helicopters overhead, Levi admitted the go to to Reim had been tougher than he had anticipated.
“Simply standing right here I really feel completely different,” he stated. “Absorbing the environment, seeing what occurred right here, seeing the bullets on the bottom.”
However regardless of how devastating the trauma of the previous three months, he nonetheless hopes he and his brother will in the future be reunited.
“We each love basketball, we went to video games collectively,” he stated. “That is one of many issues we’ll do when he is again.”
