REPORTING – Located about two kilometers from the Gaza Strip, the Israeli town of Sderot was unprepared for a terrorist attack of the magnitude of last week’s.
- Special envoy to Sderot
Risking their lives, veterans of the Israeli army are canvassing the city to identify the last inhabitants. With arched backs, white hair, determined looks, there are around ten of them, gathered around a folding table placed in the courtyard of the municipality of Sderot. They came to receive their orders. ” I’m on a mission “, explains Yaki Moav, 71 years old. His t-shirt indicates that he is a veteran of the Yom Kippur War, just like his friend Arik Guttman, also 71, with whom he will team up once again. They both have the rank of colonel. “ I was injured in the Yom Kippur War, Arik saved my life, he is my brotherhe says.Since then, I have been 50% disabled, I suffer from post-traumatic syndromes but I’m here !»
Arik and Yaki are members of a veterans’ organization, Brothers in Arms, which has been very active in protests against the Netanyahu government’s judicial reform. From the start of the war, she…
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