Passers-by stopped to commiserate with him and to try to lift his spirits.
They brought him coffee, platters of food and changes of clothing, and welcomed him to their homes to wash up and get some sleep.
“They were so kind, and they just couldn’t do enough,” said Mr. Brodutch, 42, an agronomist who grew pineapples on Kibbutz Kfar Azza before the attacks on Oct. 7.
“There was a feeling of a common destiny.”The one-man sit-in mushroomed in the weeks after the attacks.
But the sidewalks outside the military headquarters could not contain multitudes, and some people were uncomfortable with the location, which was associated with anti-government protests last year.
Persons:
Avihai Brodutch, ”, Brodutch
Organizations:
Hamas, Kfar
Locations:
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