Details of the forcible removal by Israeli soldiers of Livnat Ozeri, widow of terror victim Nati Ozeri, and her five children from their home on Hill 26, Kiryat Arba, continue to come forth. This time in the form of a chilling description provided by Livnat and her grandmother, in an interview with Nadia Matar, co-chairwoman of the grass-roots activist organization Women for Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green), ahead of her weekly program on Arutz-7 radio.
Livnat Ozeri described the start of events that night, March 23: "I got up, managed to put on my shoes, when suddenly the door was broken in (without knocking). The soldiers entered the room in which the children were sleeping, and began to conduct a search. They did not speak to me, they did not show me an order, nothing. I asked what they wanted. They did not reply."
The hysterical reaction of the soldiers sent to carry out the "important mission", as it was called: "I decided to sit on the bed for a second in order to rest. The soldiers begin to report on their radio that 'the woman is starting to barricade herself in the stone house!' This is how they reported, despite their seeing that I was shaking all over from the cold, with my child in my arms...."
The arrest: "When I went past the police van, they told me that I had to enter the car immediately. I told them that I could not leave the children alone in the house. They forcibly pushed me into the police car. And then the soldiers went to bring the children from their beds.... [T]hese are children 11 years old and younger - and there is no need to explain the trauma that a child experiences when his father has recently been murdered, and strangers take him out of his bed to a police car in the middle of the night.... [A]lmost midnight, in the freezing Hebron cold, with my five
children - dressed in pajamas, without socks, without shoes, without a coat, and without a sweater. They forbade me to bring warm clothing or blankets for my children. We began to drive. I asked them where they were taking us. 'You will know later on, we have a long drive,' they replied...."
Livnat added, "It is written in Exodus 22:21[-23]: 'You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan. If you do mistreat them, I will heed their outcry as soon as they cry out to Me, and My anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans.' When I returned to the hill with my 10- and 12-year-old children, I said to the soldiers and policemen there: 'I will overcome my personal pain. But what is so painful is the hillul Hashem [desecration of the name of God] that was committed here. Seeing that the Arab houses are still
standing, while Jews destroyed houses of Jews - this is an indescribable pain. God will judge those responsible for the injustice that was done here."
Aviva Nir, Livnat's grandmother added: "Livnat did not tell you, but I will: all the money that was in her purse and the contributions in dollars that people donated from abroad after the murder- everything is gone. All the money was stolen.... Wickedness knows no bounds. It is intolerable to think that Jews are capable of doing such things to other Jews. I only pray to God, the Deliverer of widows and orphans, to take proper care of the wicked."
Livnat Ozeri described the start of events that night, March 23: "I got up, managed to put on my shoes, when suddenly the door was broken in (without knocking). The soldiers entered the room in which the children were sleeping, and began to conduct a search. They did not speak to me, they did not show me an order, nothing. I asked what they wanted. They did not reply."
The hysterical reaction of the soldiers sent to carry out the "important mission", as it was called: "I decided to sit on the bed for a second in order to rest. The soldiers begin to report on their radio that 'the woman is starting to barricade herself in the stone house!' This is how they reported, despite their seeing that I was shaking all over from the cold, with my child in my arms...."
The arrest: "When I went past the police van, they told me that I had to enter the car immediately. I told them that I could not leave the children alone in the house. They forcibly pushed me into the police car. And then the soldiers went to bring the children from their beds.... [T]hese are children 11 years old and younger - and there is no need to explain the trauma that a child experiences when his father has recently been murdered, and strangers take him out of his bed to a police car in the middle of the night.... [A]lmost midnight, in the freezing Hebron cold, with my five
children - dressed in pajamas, without socks, without shoes, without a coat, and without a sweater. They forbade me to bring warm clothing or blankets for my children. We began to drive. I asked them where they were taking us. 'You will know later on, we have a long drive,' they replied...."
Livnat added, "It is written in Exodus 22:21[-23]: 'You shall not ill-treat any widow or orphan. If you do mistreat them, I will heed their outcry as soon as they cry out to Me, and My anger shall blaze forth and I will put you to the sword, and your own wives shall become widows and your children orphans.' When I returned to the hill with my 10- and 12-year-old children, I said to the soldiers and policemen there: 'I will overcome my personal pain. But what is so painful is the hillul Hashem [desecration of the name of God] that was committed here. Seeing that the Arab houses are still
standing, while Jews destroyed houses of Jews - this is an indescribable pain. God will judge those responsible for the injustice that was done here."
Aviva Nir, Livnat's grandmother added: "Livnat did not tell you, but I will: all the money that was in her purse and the contributions in dollars that people donated from abroad after the murder- everything is gone. All the money was stolen.... Wickedness knows no bounds. It is intolerable to think that Jews are capable of doing such things to other Jews. I only pray to God, the Deliverer of widows and orphans, to take proper care of the wicked."