TEL AVIV — 'I'm from where Messi is from,' 90-year-old Esther Cunio told the two masked Palestinian gunmen who moments earlier invaded her home in southern Israel. It was the morning of Oct 7 and Hamas was carrying out its killing spree in communities near the Gaza border, including in Kibbutz Nir Oz, where Cunio, who was born in Argentina,...
A man walks behind a glass with bullet holes following the deadly October 7 attack by gunmen from Palestinian militant group Hamas from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel Nov 21, 2023.TEL AVIV — "I'm from where Messi is from," 90-year-old Esther Cunio told the two masked Palestinian gunmen who moments earlier invaded her home in southern Israel.
She spoke about the horrifying encounter in a new documentary about the Hamas rampage that focuses on the Latino-Israeli community called Voces Del 7 De Octubre - Latino Stories of Survival."'Don't speak to me', I said, 'Because I don't know your language. You speak Arabic and I speak Hebrew poorly'. I tell him, 'I speak in Argentine Spanish'," Cunio recounted.
"So I tell him, 'Do you watch football?' Then he says to me, 'Yes, yes, I like football'. So I say to him, 'I'm from where Messi is from'. Then he replies, 'Messi! I like Messi'." "He put his hand like this," Cunio said, extending two fingers. "And they took the picture of us, and, well, then they left."
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