They’re still living under the bombs

“We went to Israel in 2000, and returned to Argentina in 2006. My husband has family in Israel. Living in Israel is nice. Everything is nice there, the only bad thing is the war. There we earned well, we lived like a normal person. In Argentina you work hard and got nothing. In Israel you work 6 or 7 hours and you have a good salary.

We will come back but do not know when. We cameback because my husband received a the letter that he had to go to war. I did not have to go because I had a tiny little boy. He told me that he did not want to go to war, we came to Israel to be well. I did come not to go to war. I was crying, I did not want to return. I did not want to be killed by a thief in Argentina. In Israel many people die. I did not want to return. My husband said “I will come back with our son”, so I’d be there alone with my mother in law. I worked until the last day. I did not receive my last salary.

One day before coming, many bombs dropped. And alarms did not sound because there were so many bombs. When I worked, bombs fell and I was still working. I hugged my colleagues, and wept. And we thought we would died together. My husband was saved because he could enter the shelter, friends of my husband could not enter to the shelter and died. And from that moment my husband wanted to return to Argentina. We returned on September 11. And we brought nothing here. I cried at the airport, did not want to come back.

We are alive and we are lucky, but we think about those who are still living under the bombs, whatever the country. We have to feel lucky, because we are, peace is luxury”