With the remains of 19 Hamas hostages still missing, loved ones feel their cycle of grief has yet to end
When Tamir Adar left his wife and two children, Asaf, 7, and Neta, 3, in the secure room of their home on 7 October 2023 he told them: “Two minutes, I’ll be back.”
He was going to join the Nir Oz kibbutz’s three other “first responders” after an alarm but could not have known that hundreds of Hamas gunmen had broken through the community’s perimeter fence.
“Until this day, his son is still asking ‘when’?’,” said Tamir’s brother Nir, 36. “He says, ‘He told me, he’s coming back’… We want to close the story.”
Tamir, 38, was shot in the stomach during a firefight with 150 Hamas militants at the kibbutz just 4 miles from Gaza.
