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    ‘No words for this horror’: Israelis and Palestinians confront a terrifying new reality

    JERUSALEM — Even in a place so timeless that it sometimes seems the stones themselves are telling old, old stories, a single week can change everything. On Friday, as the Jewish Sabbath was about to fall, and as Muslims marked their principal prayer day, Israelis and Palestinians alike struggled to come to terms with the terrifying new reality created by Saturday’s devastating cross-border ...
    by Laura King, Nabih Bulos and Melanie Lidman, Los Angeles Times Oct 13, 2023 6 minutes
    Tal Levi, 21, who was slain in the recent Hamas surprise attack in the country's south, at a cemetery in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, Israel, on Oct. 12, 2023.

    JERUSALEM — Even in a place so timeless that it sometimes seems the stones themselves are telling old, old stories, a single week can change everything.

    On Friday, as the Jewish Sabbath was about to fall, and as Muslims marked their principal prayer day, Israelis and Palestinians alike struggled to come to terms with the terrifying new reality created by Saturday’s devastating cross-border strike by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

    “There are no words, no words at all, no words for this horror,” said Eliram Kalif, a 36-year-old father of three from Nir Am, a kibbutz near the Gaza Strip.

    His was one of a string of small southern Israeli communities targeted by Hamas, along with a sprawling all-night dance party that, fatefully, had drawn thousands of young Israelis to the desert near Gaza.

    In the aftermath of , hundreds of Israeli civilians — babies and children, the young and the elderly, entire families — in a country that has traditionally gone to enormous lengths to free even a single Israeli in enemy hands.

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