An open letter to @Dawn_French Dear Dawn, I have watched the video that you posted about the war between Hamas and Israel. You are entitled to your view of course and I am sympathetic to the plight of ordinary Gazans who did not participate or endorse the terrorist attacks of October 7. Yet your video describing the Hamas massacre as a “bad thing” in a mocking tone appears to minimise or dismiss the severity and horror inflicted that terrible day. My husband’s cousin Tsachi Idan was at home asleep when the terrorists invaded his kibbutz. The family hid in the safe room but there was no lock so he held it shut. The terrorists forced, at gunpoint, a local teenager to try to lure them out. When that did not work they fired at head height at the door. Tsachi’s eldest daughter Ma’ayan was helping her father protect the family. The bullet hit her in the head and she died instantly. We know every detail of this horror because Hamas were live streaming and recording. They then held the family inside their home for five hours and it became their base of operations while they murdered and kidnapped dozens of civilians on the kibbutz. They marched Tsachi to Gaza covered in his child’s blood. There he was held hostage for many months until at some point he was killed. His body was returned in February. We will never recover from this trauma. Never. The entire universe has changed. There are still 56 more hostages in Gaza and 56 more families suffering this unfathomable torture. To describe this so glibly adds to a deep well of pain. Since then at home in Brighton & Hove we have witnessed the celebration of the murder of our family, seen antisemitism triple, seen Hamas supported. We have been attacked and harassed. The world has become a hostile place. I do hope that you can find empathy in your heart for us and the many thousands of people who were murdered, raped, maimed and kidnapped that day. For them and their families and friends. I hope too that you will delete your insulting video and be more respectful and kind in further expressions on this conflict. In hope.