"On a personal note, the endless sequence of story after story, alternating between superhuman profiles in courage and testimonies of unspeakable horror have been profoundly impactful. I find myself tearing up multiple times a day. It's wildly difficult and fiercely emotional to listen to unthinkable reports of those who have been brutally murdered, along with seemingly impossible tales of those who have been heroically saved. One poignant story involves a couple, both reserve army officers, who hid their twin toddlers and confronted the terrorists. They managed to eliminate seven of the savages before running out of ammunition and succumbing themselves. However, their children did survive. Another family recounted a harrowing ordeal where terrorists tried to force them out of their home by setting it ablaze. Locked in their safe room with terrorists at their door, the family was forced to endure the heart-wrenching cries of their dog as it perished in the flames....A startling detail emerged today: Each Kibbutz has its own security squad. Several months ago, the army reclaimed these security squads’ arsenal of heavy weapons, such as M-16s, and left them with mere pistols to defend their Kibbutzim, asserting there was no longer a need for more substantial firepower."
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