The story of Liora Ben Tsur’s October 7 can be told simply, like so many others of that day and of the year since.
The day before, she had given birth to a daughter, her third child. It was, of course, both a difficult and a joyful experience. Her family visited. Her mother, Marcel Talia, a widow, held her new grand-daughter and posed for a picture.
Then, next morning, Marcel Talia was dead at the age of 63, shot multiple times outside the kibbutz guesthouse where she was staying. Her daughter’s house had been too small and noisy with two vigorous toddlers already on hand for her to stay there, Ben Tsur, 30, said.
Early that morning, a Hamas special forces unit stormed the kibbutz,