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Bereaved Israeli families urge total victory over Hamas, national unity – Israel News

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After the shiva of Captain Ori Shani, who was killed Oct. 7 in fighting in the South, Ori’s wife found binders full of his writings, his father Yehoshua Shani said.

One of the documents they found led his family to decide that they should continue his path, and eventually led them to found the Valor Forum – a group of surviving relatives who pushed for more military pressure and for a “total victory” against Hamas.

Ori, Shani’s youngest son, was married and had a baby who is now a year and a half old. He was a commander serving on the Gaza border and led his soldiers in the battle against Hamas terrorists on October 7 until he was killed by artillery fire along with his soldier Reem Betito.

The document Ori’s family found contained a section where Ori wondered what his country needed from him.

“He wrote three things – first of all to have a healthy, big, strong family – and he really married relatively young,” his father said. “He had a son; he had a very healthy, very strong family – and one day it will grow.”

A tour with the families of the kidnapped in Kibbutz Beeri (credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI)

His father said he also wrote that he should be part of the creation of a new community in Israel’s Negev.

‘Total victory’ against Hamas, return of hostages, security

Finally, he wrote that he was needed “to be part of the defensive force of the people of Israel,” Shani said.

“After we saw this, we said we had to make it happen,” Shani said. “He lies in Mount Herzl (cemetery), but we will continue his vision.”

This led Shani to join other families who had lost loved ones in the war between Israel and Hamas and find the courage forum. The purpose of the forum is to continue the mission of their fallen children by dissuading Israeli leaders from caving to international pressure and pushing for total victory against Hamas.

The forum now includes 315 families, all who have lost loved ones in the war between Israel and Hamas.

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About two weeks into the war between Israel and Hamas, the US began pressuring Israel to agree to a ceasefire or stop the war, Shani said, explaining that this pushed the families to unite.

“That was the point where we came together, some parents who lost their children in the war, and we decided at that moment that we were not going to let the government give up. Our children were killed for that mission – to destroy Hamas, and we will continue their mission.”

“We will continue on behalf of our children who have been killed, to fight as citizens (to ensure) that the government will fulfill its promise to destroy Hamas,” Shani said, adding: “We believe this is the only way we can fight.” can bring back the hostages and bring peace to the Middle East.”

Fighting the evil of Hamas is “the only way to bring real peace to the Middle East, Israel and the entire world.”

The forum’s motto is: “In their death they commanded us victory,” a reference to the phrase “In their death they commanded us life.”

“Some of our children actually wrote this before they went into battle – that they are going into battle to bring victory – total victory – to Israel, and this is why we feel like this is our mission now. We have to do this. Truly fulfill their request – their command,” Shani explained.

Members of the forum meet with elected officials to argue for continued military pressure. They also share the stories of their loved ones in the forum’s encampment near the Knesset in Jerusalem.

“We feel that from this place we want to spread the message of our vision,” explained Shani, who said that people from all parts of Israeli society come to the tent to hear stories of the fallen, who endure their daily lives. families are shared.

Shani stressed that the forum believes that the hostages must be brought home and that without them there can be no victory. He explained that the forum believes the way to bring them back is through more military pressure.

“It is very important for us that they return safely. I have no doubt that total victory will be achieved with the return of the hostages,” he said.

The forum believes that the end of the war must include Israeli security control over the Gaza Strip and that any agreement that gives up this control cannot be legitimate.

“We have learned that we cannot put Israel’s security in the hands of others or in the hands of our friends,” Shani said.

“At the moment of truth, we can only trust ourselves, only (depend on) the IDF,” Shani said, adding that “as a man of faith” he also puts his trust in God.

“I believe that the majority of the government of Israel and the citizens of Israel, after what we have been through, understand that the security of our country is only in our hands,” he added, saying he believes that the Israeli leadership and the Prime Minister shares this view.

Shani concluded with a call for unity and love between the sections of the nation. “The enemy forced us to go to war, the toughest war since the founding of the state. War is difficult and takes a painful toll,” he said.

The war also brought about a time when “our nation was revealed as an amazing nation – the strength, the heroism, the unity, the love that exists between the parts of the nation is something that was not there in previous years.”

“There are now cracks here and there, but we will do everything we can so that the brotherhood, love and unity between parts of the nation will continue and increase, because we believe it is a strategic and necessary asset to strengthen the total achieve victory.”

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