{"id":26145,"date":"2023-10-22T12:20:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/?p=26145"},"modified":"2023-10-22T12:20:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T12:20:35","slug":"brit-man-in-israel-left-with-just-ikea-clothes-hanger-after-hamas-destroys-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/world-news\/brit-man-in-israel-left-with-just-ikea-clothes-hanger-after-hamas-destroys-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Brit man in Israel left with just IKEA clothes hanger after Hamas destroys home"},"content":{"rendered":"
A British national says "everything is gone" from his Israel home following a Hamas attack that gutted the property \u2013 leaving only an IKEA clothes hanger.<\/p>\n
Worcestershire-born Ben King and his wife Meyrav, both 52, managed to survive the assault on Kibbutz Be\u2019eri in southern Israel by lying on the floor of their safe room for 12 hours as terrorists launched an assault on the area. The couple and their children Jon, 23, and Shalev, 19, as well as Jon\u2019s girlfriend Leila, 21, were later rescued by Israeli forces and are now staying in a hotel near the Dead Sea.<\/p>\n
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Ben described his family's survival as a "miracle" but said he was left "shocked" when he was shown pictures of his home after it was torched. "I know I was just being hopeful that there might have been a corner left untouched, but I was quite shocked and possibly stunned at the complete loss of everything that I called home and my family called home," he said.<\/p>\n
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"It\u2019s a very tough pill to swallow and I think I\u2019m probably still processing it because every time I see things that remind me of my home, I have to remind myself that I haven\u2019t got that any more \u2013 you haven\u2019t got a computer, you haven\u2019t got that sofa or those photo albums that you look through once a year. They\u2019re all gone, everything\u2019s gone."<\/p>\n
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The photos and videos of Ben's home were taken by his brother Simon King, who is also staying at the hotel following the onslaught. He was in the area working when he saw his sibling's devastated property, and said he was struck by the feeling of "emptiness" after witnessing what was left of it.<\/p>\n
The 59-year-old said: \u201cI was walking on his [Ben's] tiles which had collapsed because they\u2019d been so burnt \u2013 it was like walking on a beach with shells on. There was a smell of burnt wood and burnt rubber and plastic and it was shocking to see the house so empty.<\/p>\n
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"All my brother\u2019s guitars and his computer screens where he used to make music and his wife\u2019s sewing machine have just been totally burnt down to the ground." He said there only appeared to be one item which was intact \u2013 a metal clothes hanger from Ikea. <\/p>\n
And it wasn't just Ben's house affected by the attack \u2013 Simon saw the effects of of \u201ca lot of devastation\u201d in the kibbutz. "There were burnt areas on places where there used to be grass and I was told that they put bodies there and burnt them," he added.<\/p>\n
More than 1,400 Israelis have been killed since the attack was launched on October 7, while it is believed close to 4,600 Palestinians have lost their lives.<\/p>\n
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