After They Returned Families recount captivity

Oct 7, 2023

Tali Moreno launches Kan's three-evening After They Returned project from Hostages Square and introduces six families' continuing physical, emotional and household struggles. The complete feature preserves pre-attack lives, assumptions about security, and interwoven October 7 testimony. Bat-Sheva Yahalomi recalls Ohad leaving the safe room, being shot, family members forced onto motorcycles, Eitan carried toward Gaza and her escape with her daughters. Avihai Brodutch recounts his wounds, taking a bloodied girl home, Hagar's last message, silence from his family and later hope after their home's survival. Vicky Cohen describes recognizing Nimrod's abduction from his tank in Hamas footage. Orit Meir recalls Almog's last call from Nova, fear, uncertainty and organizing with her brother. Gilad and Nitza Korngold describe their transformed lives and hope when no bodies were found. The separate next-chapter excerpt retains Orit's complete account of learning in Tiberias that Almog was rescued alive and flown to Tel Hashomer. The family testimony is retrospective and source-attributed; individual release dates or outcomes not supplied in this feature are not inferred.

Kan's third-anniversary retrospective recalls the October 7, 2023 attacks through the breached Gaza-border fence, attackers in Sderot, abductions of Noa Argamani and Ohad Ben Ami and the flight of Nova attendees. Its opening gives 1,200 murdered and thousands wounded. The Nahal Oz reconstruction, the Yahalomi/Brodutch and other families' first-person accounts, and Soroka's reception of survivors add substantive local evidence of the same wider attack and its immediate casualties and abductions. Source-specific recollections, defender timings and initial family beliefs remain attributed. The coordinated massacre is bounded to October 7; the ensuing multi-year war, independent local encounters, later rescues and 2026 memorials retain separate identities. Kan's October 4 accounts independently recount the Sharabi family's attack and abductions, the Yahalomi family's abduction and escape and Noam Ben Shalosh's emergency treatment. Their scoped passages add firsthand local and casualty evidence of the same coordinated attack, while preserving each specific occurrence and source qualification.