On Oct. 7, Gaza militants killed Carmit Palty Katzir's father and took her mother and brother hostage. Her mother was released, but Katzir fears time is running out to get her brother back alive.
Carmit Palty Katzir prepares to speak at a weekly rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling for the immediate release of the hostages being held in Gaza, Feb. 17.Carmit Palty Katzir prepares to speak at a weekly rally in Tel Aviv, Israel, calling for the immediate release of the hostages being held in Gaza, Feb. 17.
Carmit Palty Katzir in her home in Haifa, Israel, Feb. 18. During the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks, Katzir's father, Rami, was killed at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Her mother and brother were taken hostage.Carmit Palty Katzir in her home in Haifa, Israel, Feb. 18. During the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks, Katzir's father, Rami, was killed at Kibbutz Nir Oz. Her mother and brother were taken hostage.Survivors and families of victims and hostages say the mix of emotions they have felt since Oct.
But for Katzir, it is too painful now to walk the paths of her childhood home. On the day of her father's funeral, she could not bear to walk around the kibbutz."Everything," she says,"felt like walking in a crime scene."Carmit Palty Katzir holds a photo of her parents Rami and Hana Katzir with one of her children, at her home in Haifa, Israel, Feb. 18. Her father was killed on Oct. 7 and her mother was taken hostage and released in November.
"It's crazy to be happy that your brother is held hostage in Gaza," she says."But we were so happy that day when they told us." As a clinical social worker specializing in mental health, Katzir knew the price of such an ask to the survivors, but she believed it was the only way to communicate the urgency of their plight."They had to go through those experiences and memories again, which are super traumatic," she says."And they did it."
sometimes holding private meetings with groups of them. Some in Israel accuse him of stalling the negotiations, and Israeli negotiators were instructed to leave the talks last month in Cairo. Although there are weekly protests by the families and their advocates outside the Ministry of Defense in Tel Aviv, the government offers few details to the families about the talks.
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