Oct. 7 survivor says he wants to live in a world where people don't have to worry about rockets

Oct. 7 survivor and photographer Shye Klein Weinstein said that he eventually wants to live in a world where no one in any country has to worry about rockets.

"I'd love to see people just be able to live without having to worry about rockets," Weinstein said in an interview with the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show when asked what he wanted a post-Hamas Gaza to look like.

"Every time the Red Alert goes off, hundreds of thousands of people flee their homes into the nearest bunker stairwell," he said. "Their lives stop. Everything stops, because they're afraid they're gonna die."

Weinstein is a 26-year-old Canadian photographer who resides in Tel Aviv. He told Just the News that he went to the music festival with his cousins and several friends and was able to shoot some pictures. "Two people that I met....I photographed over 25 people," he said. "Of those 25 people... only those two were killed."

Weinstein was one of the many people at the Israeli music festival on Oct. 7 when Hamas launched a surprise attack, resulting in around 1,200 people being killed and another 240 kidnapped. He recalled his favorite photo that he captured that day, prior to the attack. 

"There's a photo I took of my cousin Mordecai sitting in a chair," Weinstein said. "Beside him is a man in a hammock. His name was Ran Shafer, and he lived in Kibbutz Be'eri with his wife and his three daughters who are alive by the way. That photo is the most memorable to me because I remember what a warm character he was."

Another Oct. 7 survivor, Natalie Sanandaji, said that she remembers running for her life when the attacks hit and that decision saved her life since she didn't try to hide.

"Festival goers were running in every direction," she recalled. "It was chaos. One of these decisions that ultimately saved our life was the decision to keep running instead of hiding. A lot of kids who tried to hide ended up being found by the Hamas terrorists and were shot on the spot."

She said that despite what happened, she really hoped one day in a post-Hamas Gaza, the people would be able to have a democracy.

"Hopefully, I want post-Hamas Gaza to look the same way I would like Iran to look in the future," Sanandaji told the Just the News, No Noise TV show. "I would like for them to have an actual democracy. That's the only way that their people are going to have potentially a better future."