From a detailed article by Allison Pearson in today's Telegraph, the testimony of the mother of a hostage:
Like many people I speak to during my days in Israel, Meirav is keen to stress that Hamas and their Iranian paymasters are a threat to the UK and to the entire free world. “What people don’t understand is that it’s not about Israel. It’s not antisemitism. And I would like us to stop talking about antisemitism. They didn’t come to kill us because we are Jews, because they murdered, butchered, raped Bedouin women, Christian women. People said, ‘I’m a Muslim’ and they killed them too. They came to kill whatever represents freedom. Sorry, this is about anti-freedom, anti-human, everything that humanity represents, they are against it. They are also anti-Palestinians, anti-Gaza people. But what they did to those young women, they are outside the human race. They are evil, not just to kill, but to delight in obliterating. Our aim is to live. We cherish life, and they cherish death, that’s the difference.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/10/05/oct-7-israel-survivors-stories-state-of-the-nation/