Sadly, some of the family members of the six hostages whose bodies were recovered yesterday from Gaza heard rumors of the news that their loved ones were found dead on social media.
Elchanan Danino, the father of slain hostage Ori Danino, H”yd, told Army Radio that he was officially informed of the news of his son’s murder by an IDF representative on Sunday at 4 a.m. but he was exposed to rumors of the news hours beforehand – beginning on Motzei Shabbos at 8 p.m.
“I want to utilize this platform to say – keyboard warriors, please stop!” the bereaved father said. “You murdered us beginning at 8 p.m.”
“I beg and plead – for the sake of the other families, so they shouldn’t endure what we endured tonight. I request of you, stop collecting ratings and followers on the backs of the families. You murdered us – we’re talking here about people’s lives!”
In a retrospectively heartbreaking scene, the video below shows Ori, z’l, singing “בעד עמך רחמים שאלי” with his family on Sukkos only a week before his abduction.
Ori, H’yd, 25, was from a Chareidi family from Jerusalem and was engaged to be married.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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YWN I don’t understand…he saw on your website motzei shabbos that his son was killed!…Why would you post his rebuke of you? Aren’t you embarrassed? Or is this subtle teshuva?
When it was posted on YWN at 8:28, Motzai Shabbos, it was 7 hours later in Israel, 3:28 am. So, it was almost when they notified the family.
“Fairly certain it was posted motzei shabbos Israel time, by their Israeli office. It’s been deleted (no surprise) so can’t confirm.”
YWN RESPONSE: Actually, you are totally wrong. YWN published the news that “bodies were found” after Shabbos was over in the United States- after the IDF said bodies were found, after President Biden had already commented on it. (The IDF released a statement at 4:00PM ET. Shabbos was over ET at around 8:30)
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2310337/idf-discovers-bodies-underground-in-gaza-possibly-hostages-held-by-hamas.html
Our second article was posted many hours later – after the IDF had notified every family and most of the families had already released statements. The IDF released their statement at around 7:00AM ET, which is when YWN posted it.
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/israel-news/2310426/hyd-6-hostages-confirmed-murdered-by-hamas-after-bodies-found-by-idf-in-rafah-tunnel.html
And no. Nothing was deleted.
Any other questions, Mr. Wolf?
May the family and circle heal and his memory always be a blessing.
Praise HaShem all will be found, this evil destroyed!
Thanks for the response YWN. I’m not trying to slander just understand. There’s an article you posted which you didn’t link to which said some lakewood organization expressed their condolences on the passing of Danino, “but that it wasn’t confirmed. That’s the article that’s missing.
YWN Response: The article you are referring to is the same article that is still up. We had initially published that the Special Children’s Center in Lakewood said it was informed by Danino’s mother that he was killed. We wrote that his death was not officially confirmed by the IDF/Israeli government. Once it was, we removed mention of the Special Children’s Center and replaced it with a direct confirmation from the family. Hope this helps.
refoelzeev – that article is definitely missing. Just looked for it on the ywn site before commenting to make sure it was really gone and you are right