News of Amir Ban and Shay Buchinsky

[Albert Silver]

What follows is verbatim from someone in touch with them.

Boris Gelfand is safe and well. So is Shay Buchinsky.

Amir Ban is in a bad way. His sister and husband had to hide for 30 hours in the safe room while the Hamas were massacring the people outside. They were in Kibbutz Be'eri, where 112 people were slaughtered, "some by techniques described by De Sade" (Amir). His nephew Avida Bakhar was severely wounded (lost a leg), as was his daughter, 13. Avida's wife Dana and their son Camel (15) were butchered.

[Steve Maughan]

Thanks for the update — that’s terrible news. I pray for the sparing of innocent civilians and the eradication of evil.

— Steve

P.S. I have zero desire to debate on this forum