DENVER — Nearly 7,000 miles away from her family in Israel, as missiles rained from the sky and terrorists marched into Israeli towns, Colorado Sen. Dafna Michaelson Jenet desperately refreshed her phone.
Since the Hamas terrorist group attacked Israel on Saturday, Michaelson Jenet has relied on an online blog for updates on her family and homeland. When stress wakes her in the middle of the night and between legislative meetings, she reads the updated death count: more than 1,200 in Israel as of Wednesday, with thousands more injured and around 150 taken hostage.
In homes, streets and music festivals, the militants indiscriminately gunned down civilians of all ages. It's believed to be the largest number of Jewish people murdered in a single day since the Holocaust.
"I am in a constant state of worry. There's no way for me to help my family," said Michaelson Jenet, D-Commerce City, an Israeli Jew. "I never believed in my lifetime I would see a massacre of Jews like we are seeing right now. ... I didn't believe something like this would happen in my country."
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