Hostage Survivor Or Levy Demands Truth About October 7th Massacre
Translated & summarized from Kan News by baba
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- Hostage survivor Or Levy demands truth about October 7th investigation.
- Levy expresses frustration with conflicting information and lack of progress.
- He detailed the emotional impact on his young son.
- Levy called for an end to national division and learning from the past.
- He was held captive for 491 days and released in February 2025.
Hostage survivor Or Levy has demanded answers regarding the investigation into the October 7th massacre, stating, "I want to know the truth, to know what happened, only then can I understand and only then can I even answer my son Almog who asks me why things happened, and I don't know how to answer him." Levy, who was held captive in Gaza for 491 days before his release in February 2025, expressed frustration with the conflicting information he encounters daily in the news. He was abducted from a "death shelter" where his wife was killed, after arriving at the Nova music festival shortly before the attack began.
Levy shared that he still possesses the same limited information he had while held underground, despite the passage of time and his return. He expressed shock at hearing testimonies and recordings of atrocities from the massacre, which he had not fully grasped before. "We are talking about three years later, and a year and a half after I returned, I know the same information I knew when I was sitting in a tunnel 50 meters underground," Levy said, adding that the nation seems to be moving on from the tragedy as if nothing happened, while the "soul is wounded."
He also spoke about the struggles of his son Almog, who was two years old when his mother was murdered and his father abducted, and is now five. Almog's current questions revolve around why they didn't escape or get into a car and leave, a concept Levy finds difficult to explain without revealing the harsh reality that they were targeted and faced death.
Looking towards the upcoming elections, Levy urged Israelis to learn from the lessons of October 7th and cease internal divisions. He observed that while initial post-release reactions showed unity, the country has since become even more divided. "Now all sides claim these things happened because we were divided, so are we doing exactly what we did three years ago? Haven't we learned?" he questioned, calling the current political animosity "madness."
