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    October 7 Testimonies

    I heard them say “There is someone here with a baby, and there is someone behind him”

    Harrowing tale of survival: Family fights off terrorists with kitchen knives, guards child with their lives during a violent home invasion.

    Three terrorists surrounded our car and started shooting. We all ducked immediately

    Israeli trance music fans survive unexpected rocket attack & hostile confrontation near Gaza border during desert festival.

    I saw them going house by house, trying to break in

    Heroic Kfar Aza resident thwarts terrorists with military precision, safeguarding family and home from a harrowing attack.

    I am 14 years old. These are not things a child my age should see

    A harrowing account from a kibbutz: Family hides in safe room amid terrorist infiltration, echoing a plea for help as community faces tragedy.

    They went from house to house. Tormenting. Butchering. Slaughtering. Looting. Torching. Kidnapping

    My name is Liat A.M and I’m a survivor of the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri. Since the day of the massacre, I haven’t been on social media,...

    The terrorists were at our doorstep. I sat there with my son, petrified

    My name is Adele R. I'm 68 years old and I live on Kibbutz Nirim, which is two kilometers from the border [with Gaza]. On Saturday,...

    He saw beloved friends of ours, some shot all over their bodies, others burnt alive

    The barrage that Saturday was especially long. We were all in the safe room, and the children were sitting on a blanket I had laid out...

    Outside, everything looked terrible, utterly destroyed, like a battlefield

    On Friday evening, we celebrated the Kibbutz Festival. My grandparents came, and Arbel, my daughter, was on cloud nine. She jumped for...

    I tried to revive you, but there was no one to revive

    At the entrance of this Migunit [small, concrete, doorless bomb shelter], my life has turned upside down, and changed completely. Laurie...

    They had this gleeful, happy look as they slaughtered innocent people

    Bar and I arrived at the festival at around 1:00 a.m. At around 6 in the morning, the music stopped, and a crazy amount of rockets...