Elyakim Arava Family
The terrorists who broke into the Miran family home came along with the neighbors' son, Tomer Arava Eliaz. At gunpoint, they forced him to persuade the family to open the safe room. Father Omri was kidnapped. Two-year-old Ronnie cried out: “I want my dad.” His wife Lishay had time to call out to him: “I love you, do not be a hero.”
Lishay and Omri on their wedding day, with little Ronnie on their hands. Photo: Noa Sharvit
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While Omri stands with the baby Alma, a Red Color alarm sounds. Together with Lishay, they enter the safe room, where Ronnie is sleeping. Omri and Lishay lock the safe room door and plan to arrange a suitcase to travel to Omri's father who lives in the north. When there is a break from the sirens, Lishay leaves the safe room to prepare food for the little girls and returns to the room.
Omri and Lishay receive messages on the kibbutz's WhatsApp groups about the infiltration of terrorists into the Sadot neighborhood, which is on the other side of the kibbutz.
Omri and Lishay hear the sounds of gunfire approaching them. Omri goes out of the safe room and gets armed with two knives.
The parents hear a massive gun battle at a neighbor's house and realize they are next.
A squad of about five terrorists infiltrates the Miran home through the kitchen window and points the weapons at the safe door. With the terrorists, there is one hostage they forced to move between the houses as bait: the family's neighbor, 17-year-old Tomer Arava Eliaz. With a weapon pointed at him, Tomer asks to open the door of the safe room, otherwise the terrorists will kill him and them together - the Miran family comply with his request.
The terrorists take the parents out of the safe room along with Alma. They scan their home in search for weapons, while interrogating Omri, threatening to kill him and pointing the weapon at him.
After the terrorists become convinced that Omri has no weapons, they take him with Lishay and the two little girls to the house of the neighboring Idan family. The terrorists seat all the hostages together in the kitchen and record them live on Facebook. This is the last time they see the neighbors' teenage son Tomer. According to an IDF's investigation, there is a high probability that Tomer later managed to escape from the terrorists, but was accidentally killed by fire from Israeli forces
To the kitchen of the Idan family are also led Judith and Natalie Raanan, a mother and daughter from the USA who were on a holiday in the kibbutz.
The terrorists leave the house and kidnap Omri to Gaza while he is handcuffed. Together with him, Tzahi Idan, as well as Judith and Natalie Raanan, who are later the first hostages Hamas releases, are kidnapped. Lishay tells Omri she loves him and asks him not to be a hero: "We are waiting for you; I am guarding our girls, and don't be a hero." Ronnie, his little daughter pried out of his hands, tries to run after him and says, “I want my dad.” The terrorists order the remaining members of the family to sit down and not move while telling them in English: “Don't worry they will be back”.
Fighters from the Givati Brigade arrive at the Idan family home and rescue Lishay with her daughters Ronnie and Alma, and Gali Idan with her children Shahar and Yael.
Lishay, Ronnie and Alma board the second bus departing from the kibbutz and are evacuated to the Mishmar HaNegev base.
After about two hours at the Mishmar HaNegev base, Lishay and her daughters are evacuated to Kibbutz Kramim.
Lishay and her family are constantly struggling to get omri home. His father, Dani Miran, protests from Hostage Square: 'We can't wait'.
Lishay and her little daughters are waiting for father Omri to return
Omri's family gets informed that he is alive. Following intelligence information coming from hostages released in the deal, an Israeli official informs Lishay that Omri is alive and that he is apparently being held inside a tunnel, the location of which is unknown.
Dani Miran, Omri's father, protests outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague at a demonstration for the return of the hostages.
Dani Miran at a demonstration outside the tribunal in The Hague
Photograph: Use under section 27a of the Copyright Act Little Alma celebrated her first birthday, without dad.
Lishay, Ronnie and Alma around Alma's birthday cake
Hamas released a video with the signal of the life of Omri and Keith Siegel, who were kidnapped from Kibbutz Kfar Aza. In the video, Omri says: “My dear family, I miss you all. Dad, my brothers, my sister, my Lishay, my love, Ronnie and Alma, my precious daughters. This year we haven't been able to celebrate any holiday together because of this bloody war. I hope we can all celebrate together on Independence Day's next holiday. I've been in Hamas captivity for 202 days.”
After 738 days in Hamas captivity, Omri Miran is released and returns to Israel
המתחם האינטראקטיבי של מפת העוטף ב-7 באוקטובר 2023 נועד לתעד ולהנציח את האירועים שהתרחשו ביישובי עוטף עזה באמצעות תיעודים מזמן אמת, דקה אחר דקה.
הפרויקט בהליכי בנייה ותחקיר, בשלבים הבאים יתווספו נקודות רבות על המפה, לרבות בסיסי צה”ל, הרחבת אזורי המסיבות והדרכים המובילות לעוטף.
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אזהרה: התוכן מכיל תיאורים ותיעודים קשים לצפייה
