Testimony Database

They didn't know that there were 3,000-4,000 people in actual danger of their lives - Matar Belzer

She felt that it could have been us, just like it was them. - Vered Shelhav

Your friends are injured, and you need to detach emotionally and function. - Dudi Rabi

The iron scars will remain with everyone who experienced the Shabbat in October; we must deal with them. - Dany Zernitsky

Everyone came and left with weapons and were alert and tense. You could feel it in the air. - Yaell Malka

Three hundred bodies on the road, all around, people shot still inside the vehicle, bodies... and no one is here - Lina Orlov, Rotem Yaakobi

I understood that they were aiming for my head. If the balloon hadn't been there, it would have hit my head. - Idan Caspi

Everywhere there are terrorists - Oranit Fahima

No one prepares you— not for this pain nor for the scenarios you've seen there. - Nofar Gahali

“Everything was out, the bedroom, the kitchen. I looked at the living room and saw that they had broken the window there and came through it. I “flew” back to the safe room”. - Laura Lotem Chezes

“I said to the guy: "listen, I’m going to get the car and evacuate casualties. He said: “go, your a hero”” - Tali Hadad

“I heard the fighting outside, I received calls that the Kibbutz was crawling with terrorists.” - Refael Samet

We were next in line. - Miri Giter

To say thank you for being alive. - Rafi Hirschfeld

I felt that we were being abandoned. I felt they were not there. That there is no one to turn to. Also now there is no one to turn to. - Omer Metzger

We have never smelled this before. It was the smell of war, the smell of death, the smell of hell. - Shuki Joshua Edri

It was a tense silence. You didn't hear anything. It was as if nothing existed. - Paola Judith Frenkel

Yes, the terrorist shot the dog, and the entire path was covered with blood - CARMELA MICHEL

My whole life has prepared me to survive, now! - Daniel Dvir

" I felt naked, I did everything as I learned in the army but without a gun "

"The story of Ofakim is the heroism of its citizens."Shahar Butzhak tells of October 7th at Ofakim

"I crammed thirty people in a 14-seater car" - Yosef Aziadna tells about October 7, Re'im

"I bid farewell to my parents, and I bid farewell to everything" Nikita Sumerov, Oct. 7, Nahal Oz

"Grandpa, why did you come back and Dad didn't?" Zohar Hubara, Oct. 7, Sufa

From Erez Arieli's testimony: "They really came to kill us, like Nazis, to burn us

From Esther Taranto's testimony: “it’s not the IDF firing, it’s someone else firing.”

Eitan Cunio: "Complete destruction. Really, It hurts to see it. Not a crumb left from the house..."

From the testimony of Iris Ganor: “I survived, I was busy surviving”

From Ayala Avraham's testimony: "I couldn't tell who was a terrorist and who wasn't."

“All around there’s shooting..ta ta ta ta”- Debi Oulu recounts Oct 7 at Tel Or farm

Adam Berdeshevsky: "As it came closer, I told the children the terrorists will probably come here"

From Olga Chagin's testimony: “My mind was in an abnormal state of confusion; I was terrified”

From the testimony of Isi Shemesh: "We were scared to death."

Rotem Almog: "We arrived at the party nine, we came back three. They took my whole group."

"They did the job too well", Nir Caspi Sultan, Holit, Oct. 7th

Liora Clark: "I heard a lot of shooting. I saw the guys from the civil guard with weapons drawn".

"The DJ said, 'Red alert, everyone get down on the floor,' and from there, it was a storm."

Haim Biton continuously replays in his mind the scene of how he escaped from the terrorists.

I saw the barrel of a rifle between the closet and the wall, as if death was looking into my face

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Daniel, a soldier on leave, was waiting at home for the celebrations of Jewish 'Simchat Tora'

"Despite this horror, we will find the strength to return to Kerem Shalom״ -Avital Shindler

"I kept getting messages from my Nepalese workers pleading, “boss, save me, save me.”-Gilad Hunwald

Shaili decided to commemorate her father - Shachar Aviani - the military security coordinator of Kfar Aza, who was murdered while protecting his community and home

Mai Caspi did everything she could to save the wounded, although she was almost paralyzed with fear

Shaked relates the story of his quest with his brother to return safe and sound to their mother.

From the testimony of Elad Erenraich: "I saw heroes who went back simply to save others, and I know for certain that some of them did not return”

From the testimony of Irena Kashi: "It was a living death. You’re here, but it is just a matter of time before they would come for you"

From the testimony of Agam Yosefzon: "I don't get it - where are the people who are supposed to protect me?"