Lior Raz, star and creator of one of Israel’s most popular TV shows, Fauda, is currently on the frontlines of Israel-Hamas conflict in the southern Israeli town of Sderot. Hamas terrorists attacked Israeli towns bordering the Gaza Strip and launched thousands of rockets targeting Israeli cities.
Accompanied by Yohanan Plesner @yplesner and Avi @issacharoff , I headed down south to join hundreds of brave "brothers in arms" volunteers who worked tirelessly to assist the population in the south of Israel. We were sent to the bombarded town of Sderot to extract 2 families pic.twitter.com/WpM9JLeOZM— Lior Raz (@lioraz) October 9, 2023
The conflict has taken the lives of more than 1,600 people including both Israelis and Palestinians. Over 100 people have been held hostage by terrorist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Lior Raz, the Fauda star, told news agencies that he was serving alongside other volunteers from the ‘brothers in arms’ protest movement in southern Israel. He said he is with the Israel Democracy Institute, Yohanan Plesner and Fauda co-creator Avi Isacharoff.
“I headed down south to join hundreds of brave “brothers in arms” volunteers who worked tirelessly to assist the population in the south of Israel. We were sent to the bombarded town of Sderot to extract two families,” Raz said in a post on social media site X (formerly Twitter).
Raz in his post also shared a video where he is seen sheltering himself from rockets launched by the Hamas terrorist group.
Raz joined the Sayeret Duvdevan unit of the Israeli army after his teenage girlfriend was killed in the hands of an Arab terrorist in Jerusalem in 1990. The terrorist who killed Raz’s girlfriend was released by Israel in exchange for captured IDF soldier Gilad Shalit.
Raz also appealed for calm through his social media channels. “We are appealing to you – please remember this day even later in the war. Remember who started the massacre. Hamas is an organisation that wants to destroy the Jews and does not want to talk about peace in any conditions,” he said in an Instagram story.
“When the war turns, and we promise you that we Israelis will turn it, and Gaza will absorb the losses, remember that we go into this war with a heavy heart, with no desire to kill innocents, and with no choice in the face of those who come against us,” he further added.
(with inputs from Jewish Chronicle)