Ar’ara “On the morning of October 7th, my wife, my baby, and I were driving in our car. When we got to Ma’on Junction eight motorcycles appeared and started shooting at us. My wife, Fatma told me: ‘Hamid, I can’t feel my leg.’ I told her: ‘There is no god but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of God’, She died in the car. I leaned her car seat back and closed her eyes. My baby who was sitting in the back of the car was hit by shrapnel on his shoulder. I realized that we had to escape and find shelter because the area was swarming with terrorists. I spotted a big electric cabinet on the side of the road so I took my baby with me and ran to hide inside it. After five hours, four Hamas terrorists appeared, and from all places they decided to hide at the back of the electric cabinet I ...
Survivor of the Supernova festival massacre. “It all began at 6:30 a.m. We were on the dance floor when missile interceptions started above our heads. The music was shut off and they told us to evacuate the place. We ran to our cars with what little equipment we managed to grab from the complex and started driving. The roads were jammed and packed, everyone stressed to leave. First, we drove to the right, and cars started making U-turns saying they were being shot at. So, then we drove to the left and the same thing happened. That’s when we realized we were stuck. Luckily, there was a brigadier general standing on the road. I stayed with him until he finished a phone call and he told me to run into the fields as fast and as far as I could. And that’s what happened; hundreds of people on average 20 ...
Ofakim “At 6:30 am we woke up to sirens and rushed to our safe room. A few minutes later we heard massive gunshots all around us. My son Itamar who serves in the IDF said that it seemed we were under attack. Itamar grabbed his weapon and ran to the door to see where the gunshots were coming from. Before he left, I told him: ‘Go out and save as many people as possible!’. I had no clue where I was sending him. I put my sneakers on and started running after him until I saw him get into a car with two other armed police officers. After the car drove off, I was standing in the street with my daughter who joined me when suddenly we saw in a nearby playground heavily armed terrorists who were shooting all over the place. We took cover and hid behind a wall ...
Aunt of the hostage Carmel Gat. “From the moment I wake up until the moment I fall asleep, Carmel is constantly on my mind. How is she held there? Does she have enough food and water? What is she thinking about? I can’t bear the fact she’s being held hostage, probably inside a dark and suffocating tunnel in Gaza. What keeps me going is my belief in her strength. I believe that she is alive, and so there is still hope to bring her back home. Kinneret, Carmel’s mother, was not that ‘privileged’ as she was murdered in that horrendous terrorist attack on the same morning they took Carmel. Alon, Carmel’s brother, was also kidnapped with his Partner Yarden, and their three-year-old daughter Geffen. They were taken into a car with four Hamas terrorists heading to Gaza. Luckily, as they neared the border with Gaza, they saw an IDF tank and ...