Testimony Excerpt
Shani Kiniso: “My mother wrote: Please come and rescue us, we can't stand it anymore.” Oct 7, Be’eri
The Full Testimony
Testimony of
Shani Kiniso
Shani Kiniso is from Kibbutz Be'eri, where most of his family lives. When the siren sounded, he was sleeping with his partner, Roni, in the safe room in his apartment in the Young Adults neighborhood. Over the next few hours, they locked themselves in silence in the safe room. Through the internal messaging network "Local," they received real-time news about the difficult situations of his parents, sister, grandmother, and many others, including instances of murder, house fires, and rescues. Thanks to his permission to write online, he became a center for information transfer between kibbutz members, which gave him a certain sense of control and purpose amidst the terror and the experience of helplessness. In the afternoon, he and his partner were evacuated on the first bus and drove along a dangerous route exposed to gunfire, feeling terrified. Along the way, they encountered harsh sights, including dead bodies of terrorists and civilians, devastation, and charred cars. His parents, who were later evacuated in a separate vehicle, were attacked by terrorists along the way but survived.
Place of the event:
Beeri
Name:
Shani Kiniso
Organization:
None
Language:
Hebrew
Credit:
Date: 15.11.2023
Interview: Judy Herbstein
Photography: Avi Heller
Video Editing: Inbal Sprinzak
Content Editing: Hamutal Prat
Translation: Ayala Parag
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Channa Perri
Channa, age 71, was abducted from her home in Nirim early that morning, along with her son Nadav, both were in a medically complex condition.
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
Eyal Dvori, a member of Kibbutz Be'eri, headed the 12th grade cohort at Nofey HaBsor High School. On October 7, he and his family were abroad, following the events from afar, in horror and helplessness. A student from the cohort was murdered, and a teacher was kidnapped.
Maor Ben Yair
A group of friends went to Nova Festival to celebrate Maor's birthday. They had an extraordinarily fun time. At the 6:20, with the sunrise, there was a Red Alert.
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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