Grandson recounts seeing graphic video of beloved grandmother killed by Hamas terrorists

Yoav Shimoni opened as much as ABC News concerning the irritating second he noticed a graphic video of his beloved grandmother mendacity at the ground of her house demise, surrounded by Hamas terrorists who posted her ultimate moments on her Facebook for her circle of relatives to look.

Just 10 mins earlier than militants broke into Bracha Levinson’s house on Saturday at Israel’s Nir Oz kibbutz, Levinson was once texting her daughters, “concerned about them more than she was herself,” stated Shimoni, 24, who lives in Canada.

But then Shimoni’s sister frantically messaged the circle of relatives textual content team asking if that they had observed their grandmother’s Facebook post.

“Immediately, I went to her Facebook page. And I saw a video with her lying on her living room floor with her arms clenched on her chest, covered in blood, and blood surrounding her. A few men with guns standing above her and shouting,” Shimoni stated.

“We all saw the video. Even my little brother,” he stated.

“I was freaking out, trying to make sense of what’s happening. Just, like, pacing around my condo,” he stated. “I’m trying to call my parents, and hearing my mom screaming her lungs out to the phone when my dad is trying to, like, calm me down and try to explain to me what is happening.”

The 24-year-old was once in surprise, he stated, and likewise scared for the remaining of his circle of relatives who are living in Israel.

As the day went on, Shimoni stated, the circle of relatives discovered that no longer handiest did the militants take Levinson’s and post “her dying body for us to see, but they also burned down her house and the entire community which my mom grew up in, I spent most of my summers in.”

Levinson, 74, lived in Israel since she was once a kid after the Holocaust. She raised her youngsters as a unmarried mom within the Nir Oz kibbutz, the place she lived the remaining of her existence. She was once recognized locally for the bicycle she at all times rode round as her major transportation.

“She was truly the pillar of our family, and a pillar in her community,” her grandson stated.

Shimoni final noticed his grandmother at her house two weeks in the past for the Jewish top vacations. Levinson at all times felt most secure at her house, he stated.

“There was no sense of any danger there,” he famous. “Coming from the outside to that region, always you feel a bit tense, but it’s always the thought of like ‘OK, if there’s a missile or something, then go to the shelter and we’ll be safe.’ Which, unfortunately on Saturday, that wasn’t the case.”

Shimoni stated he needs his grandmother to be remembered for her love of her circle of relatives and her kibbutz.

He stated he is comforted figuring out his grandmother did not need to witness “her community being torn apart.”

And Shimoni stated his middle breaks for everybody whose family members have been taken hostage.

“At least I know that my grandmother is not suffering anymore,” he stated. “I imagine the pain that the neighbors, my mom’s colleagues, and my family’s friends, and all my friends are experiencing right now, with the unknowing of what happens with their loved ones that are in Gaza.”