In the space of 24 hours, Ayelet Svatitzky, 46, found out that her brother had been murdered by Hamas, and that her mother and older brother had almost certainly been kidnapped and taken to Gaza.
“The cruelty, the atrocities are inhumane,” the author tells me from her home near Haifa, in the north of Israel, where she lives with her husband and three children. Our interview comes after Svatitzky's home region — an area that was already engulfed in the biggest regional conflict in decades — has been thrown into further chaosfollowing a blast at a hospital in Gaza on Tuesday night.
