The mother of Guy Iloz whose body is in Gaza to Netanyahu: “Give them back to us”

In a speech she delivered at a ceremony on Mount Herzl, Doris Lieber told about her son’s abduction and his last moments in captivity in Gaza: “He was sure he was coming back” • She turned to the Prime Minister in tears: “In four months I am supposed to go to Guy’s grave, where do I go?”

N12 | Published 05/13/24 14:55

Doris Lieber, the mother of Guy Iloz whose body is being held in Gaza, spoke at noon (Monday) at the state memorial service for the victims of hostilities on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem. “In four months I’m supposed to go up to Guy’s grave. Where do I go? I don’t have a stone,” Lieber said in tears. She turned to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and asked: “Give them back to us.”

Liber told about her son’s abduction and his last moments in captivity. “Guy was abducted from the ‘Nova’ festival, our last contact with him was a panicked phone call that came from the area during the attack. Screams, gunshots and chaos were heard in the background. Mia Regev, who was released from captivity in Gaza, completed the missing parts of the story for us. The terrorists found Guy hiding under a tree, in a bush Thorny. A terrorist pulled him out and asked him to turn around. Then he shot him in the back,” Lieber described.

Doris Lieber, the mother of Guy Iloz, was kidnapped from the party at the ceremony and murdered in captivity. Guy Iloz Photo: Courtesy of the family

According to her, “He was transported unconscious to Gaza and lay alone for a whole week, chained to his bed due to his severe injury. A day and a half before his death, Mia Regev was brought into his room in the hospital, who was also kidnapped from the party. In the last conversation before his death, he told her that his mother is the strongest woman in the world, this Probably the reason I’m standing here today, he also told her that as soon as he returned home he would hug me and never leave me again.”

Lieber said that “Guy is left a void in captivity in Gaza and a void is also left in each of you. And in this free space that has been created, questions of morals and values ​​arise, but worse than that, doubts arise in faith. In four months I am supposed to ascend to Guy’s grave, where am I ascending? What am I doing “I don’t have a stone.” She tearfully turned to the Prime Minister who was sitting in the audience and asked him: “Give them back to us.”

Netanyahu at a ceremony on Mount Herzl

She said that “Gay was my only son and when he turned 18 I had to sign a permit for him to serve in a combat unit. He was a fighter in the Golani and I often thought that if he hadn’t been at the party he would probably have been one of the first fighters to enter Gaza at the beginning of the war. He would surely have written a name of Kidnapped under the helmet and fought fiercely to get it back. This is the mutual bond he was educated on.

“We, the parents, the brothers, the children and the survivors of the ‘Nova’ who lost the most precious to them in the terrible massacre, are ordered to commemorate all the fallen, all the sounds that fell on October 7. We must reveal the spirit that burned in them and listen to them carefully. I believe that if we listen For these sublime sounds we will find the way to continue their path and spirit.”

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