Idan Raichel: ‘The Baby I Saved Became A Terrorist In Gaza’

Israeli musician Idan Raichel revealed in a recent interview a chilling story about a child he once helped save in Gaza, who years later turned into a terrorist killed in battle.

“I received a picture from a combat soldier in Khan Yunis who found it on a dresser in a home,” Raichel recalled. “In the picture, I still have dreadlocks. And I’m standing next to a father and a baby in a baby’s bed. I was active in an organization called Save A Child’s Heart – an international non-profit organization based in Israel, dedicated to improving the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children all around the world here in Israel.”

Raichel explained that the program had eventually brought in numerous children from Gaza for life-saving treatments. “Then at a certain point they started bringing a lot of Palestinian children from Gaza,” he noted. Shifting back to the present, he continued: “The soldier tells me – ‘Listen, the father of this baby is a Hamas activist, and this baby himself became a martyr. We have a poster of him and you.”

Reflecting on the devastating irony, Raichel said, “It’s frightening. Absolutely terrible. A very elderly woman from Austria once told me: We were all guilty during the Holocaust. We didn’t know about the camps, but we knew that Jews were disappearing from the streets and we didn’t ask enough questions.”

Overcome with emotion, Raichel added: “To this day, not a single ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ has been found in Gaza.”

{Matzav.com Israel}