Testimony Excerpt
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
The Full Testimony
Testimony of
Omer Metzger
On the evening of Simchat Torah, Omer visited her family in Kibbutz Nir Oz. When the alarms started on Saturday, she hid in the safe room with her uncle, aunt, and their children. They could hear the terrorists walking around the kibbutz the whole time.
Place of the event:
Nir Oz
Name:
Omer Metzger
Organization:
None
Language:
Hebrew
Credit:
Date: 11.10.2023
Interview: Talya Avishai
Video Editing: Ilia Ginzburg
Content Editing: Gillie Cooper
Translation: Shoshana Lavan
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Tamar Metzger
Tamar was in the shower on Shabat morning when she heard voices in the living room and Yoram, her husband, responding in Arabic. The bathroom door was yanked open, and she was grabbed and then dragged out from her house.
Eyal Dvori
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Maor Ben Yair
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Deborah Mintz
“Another couple of hours we would have been dead anyways”- Deborah Mintz on 7.10 in Nirim
Tamar Livyatan
From Tamar Livyatan's testimony: "I have a daughter and granddaughter here, and I am not leaving without them."
Judith Bdolach
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