“We want to create something to help others. We have the power to do it,” said Iris Haim, whose son was killed in a tragic friendly fire incident in the Gaza Strip.
motions will always be there, the sadness, the feeling that it could have been different, the loss. I can be very strong most of the time and not cry, but I am a human being,” Iris Haim, the mother of former Hamas captive Yotam Haim, told JNS on Sunday.
“I don’t want to give up these emotions. I want to feel Yotam and the pain,” she added.
On Oct. 7, 2023, 28-year-old Yotam, who lived alone in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, was supposed to perform as a drummer with his heavy metal band, Persephore, at the Pshychoward Metal Festival in Tel Aviv.