Yona Brief, an Israeli soldier, died over 400 days after being critically wounded during Hamas’ attack on southern Israel. His prolonged struggle for recovery and eventual death symbolize the sacrifices made by hundreds of fallen soldiers in the ongoing conflict.
An Israel i soldier who died more than 400 days after being wounded in the attack that sparked the war in Gaza now symbolizes the sacrifice of fallen fighters. Hazel Brief looks at her daughter and granddaughter at their home in Modiin, Israel , Dec. 8, 2024. Hazel's son Yona Brief has died 14 months after Hamas militants shot him 14 times on Oct. 7, 2024 in Kfar Aza, (AP Photo/Sam McNeil). For more than 400 days after being critically wounded during Hamas ’ Oct.
7, 2023, attack on southern Israel, Yona Brief tried to recover. But after losing both legs and enduring medically induced comas, the combat medic died in late November. The dual Israeli-American citizen has come to symbolize the sacrifice by hundreds of fallen soldiers in what many in Israel see as a war for their survival. “He became a symbol of ‘Don’t quit,’” said his mother, Hazel. His father, David, compared him to the oil that lit the candelabra in the Hannukah story, miraculously burning longer than expected, according to Jewish tradition. More than 800 Israeli soldiers have been killed since Hamas’ attack, about 300 of them on the initial day and the rest in Gaza or in the war against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Many of them were seriously wounded. The war in Gaza has killed nearly 45,000 Palestinians, while over 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon, according to local health officials. and Israelis see their sacrifice as deeply moving. Public opinion in previous wars has often been swayed by high soldier casualties. Months before Brief was called into action on Oct. 7, he had been seriously wounded, also in his legs, by a pipe bomb during a commando raid while serving in the occupied West Bank..As militants attacked from Gaza, he and his seven-soldier commando unit raced to join the Israeli army’s house-by-house war in the communal farming villages, military bases and towns along the border, where Hamas fighters ambushed them, killing two soldiers. Suddenly, his training as a medic was used to save himself
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