11 October 2023 , 21:40
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The heartbreaking moment an Israeli mum learned her missing husband had been killed by Hamas militants was caught on film.
Shaylee Atary and her baby daughter Shaya escaped after hiding for more than 24 hours while invading forces tried to break into their home in the Kfar Aza kibbutz amid a massacre of families, including 40 children.
The singer was in the middle of a televised interview, explaining how her partner Yahav Winner had disappeared during the attack by dozens of Palestinian militants on Saturday morning. The footage shows her holding her one-month-old child as she explains her filmmaker husband could be "injured somewhere" or "kidnapped".
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Shaylee Atary was told her husband had been killed during a TV interview (SKY)However, she appears to pause as she speaks to her mother, who has dropped to the ground behind her after speaking to the Israeli Defence Forces on the phone. Shaylee then repeatedly shouts "Ma, Ma" while her mum remains silent, her head in her hands.
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Other family members then take the baby and the Shaylee wails uncontrollably. A narrator then confirms she had just received confirmation her husband's body had been discovered. The family gave permission for the footage to be aired.
Sky News chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay, who was conducting the interview, said: "This is the horror of war. The family has allowed us to show this so that everyone understands what it is like." In a previous interview, Shaylee revealed she had hidden in a warehouse with her baby without food or water for 27 hours as the massacre went on.
Shaylee and Yahav Winner with their daughter ShayaShe ran into a storeroom before covering her daughter with sacks of soil before running across a lawn as the militants fired at her. She was eventually taken in by a family who allowed her into their saferoom until they could be rescued. Shaylee and her baby had both suffered smoke inhalation and were taken to hospital. Her husband Yahav had won the best cinematography prize at this year's Tel Aviv International Students Film Festival for his short film The Boy.
Israeli soldiers were yesterday seen going to house to house to collect the dead and put them into body bags following the attack in kibbutz - one of many quiet rural communities near the Gaza border targeted. Photos show some of the troops covering their faces due to the smell, while others are said to have been comforted after finding the horrors of the situation too much to deal with.
More than 2,200 lives have been lost since Saturday morning when Hamas fighters crossed the border into Israel, which subsequently declared war on the group, leading to both sides launching rocket strikes and killing scores of civilians, including in the Gaza Strip.