Minnesota Families Impacted By Israel Attacks: "They Just Want To Exist"

By Jonah Kaplan, CBS Minnesota

October 9, 2023

GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn -- Ari Parritz traveled to Israel last week from St. Paul for a cousin's wedding. He's now eager to get home to his wife and young children following a deadly attack on Israel over the weekend.

"I have this emotion tempered by the fact that so many, even young kids, are not doing that right now. All the kids that were killed and taken away to Gaza aren't having experiences. They're having very different experiences, and I can't bring those two realities together," he said.

The attack by the Hamas militant group marks the deadliest attack in Israel in decades. The attack has killed over 700 people in Israel so far, and 2,150 more have been injured.

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