The Kapshitter family did not have a chance on Oct. 7. That Saturday morning the four members of the family — the father, Evgeny (Zhenya), 37, the mother, Dina, 34, and their two small children, 8-year-old Aline and 5-year-old Eitan — were on their way back to their home in Be’er Sheva from a camping trip near Ashkelon, when they were ambushed by Hamas terrorists, who sprayed their car with bullets, killing them all. The horrors did not end there. Identification of the bodies took many days, and was completed at different times for each of them, which meant their funerals could not take place at the same time. “An entire family was wiped out,” says Yana Pasternak, an old family friend. “Dina was shot in the head. Her face was unidentifiable. The grandmother identified the little boy,” and young Aline’s body was only located after she had been declared missing.
