"Our parents died": The difficult conversation of the Idan family children with the police on October 7
The October Council revealed the phone call of photographer Roi Idan's children, aged 6 and 9, with the police emergency center on October 7. The children report the death of their parents and receive instructions from the operator to stay in the safe room. The article provides background on the tragic events in Kfar Aza that day.
The October Council revealed on Saturday evening the difficult phone call of the children of photographer Roi Idan, aged 6 and 9, with the police emergency center on October 7. In the call, the children tell the operator: "Our parents died. Now." The operator instructs them to stay in the safe room and not leave the house. The children report that they are in Kfar Aza. The article provides background on the late Roi Idan, a photographer for Ynet and Yedioth Ahronoth, a resident of Kfar Aza, who left his home at the start of the attack, documented the infiltration of the terrorists, and transmitted images to the newsroom. He then returned to his home, where his wife Smadar and their three children were staying. Smadar was murdered in the house; the two older children hid in a closet for about 14 hours and survived. Roi was murdered while holding his young daughter Abigail, who was kidnapped to Gaza and released after 51 days.