For 224 days, Amit Buskila's family hoped for the best. On Friday, the IDF announced that Amit Buskila was murdered and her body was abducted to Gaza from the Nova music festival. Her uncle, Shimon Atias, who received her last call on that horrible Saturday, recalled that she recited Shema with her last breaths.

"Last Friday, we received the terrible news after a long period of uncertainty, will there be a deal or not? Will she come out alive or not? Injured or not? And with whom? My mind was running constantly, every second and every moment," he said. 2 The late Amit Buskila "We fought across borders and continents, went to rabbis and tzadikim, held protests, I turned the world upside down for her. That's why she called me on her last call.

And it ended sadly and painfully. It will take us years to process and accept. Tough years are ahead of us.

And that's it, Amit is gone, our world shattered. Just like that." Shimon recounted the last conversation with Amit, in which she informed him from the Nova music festival she was being fired at.

"She told me they were shooting at her, I was obviously powerless. I screamed, I yelled. It felt like someone twisted a knife in my heart, that's how it felt to me.

There's more to the conversation that wasn't published and the rest was also difficult, but I pushed it aside and wanted to believe and hoped I hadn't heard correctly. Maybe it wasn't her, maybe it wasn't. It was hard, the conversation wasn't easy at all, and the rest of the con.