Among the first targets on the morning of October 7th were communities across southern Israel, hit first by rockets, then infiltrated by gunman who went house to house, killing and kidnapping civilians.

Among those communities, Kibbutz Bairi,

where Nick Schifrin looks back on a day

that has changed the country and the region

and upended the lives of its 1,000 residents.

A warning, some images in this story may be disturbing.

One year later, the Bachar home in Kibbutz Beari, three miles from the Gaza Strip, is frozen in horror.

Evidence of a community that will never be the same, a family that will never be whole and a safe room that couldn't keep them safe.

They get into the house. You hear the steps on the floor and they know that people still alive there in the safe room.

So they go straight to the safe room.

They try to open and you close and they try to open and you close and they told me,

Ifthachalbl bab open the door.

Avidabakhar lived here with Donna his wife of 32 years their son Carmel and daughter

Adar. The home stands as it was 365 days ago, a clock frozen to the time of the attack on this house, and a safe room where Adar Bachar recorded these messages for a local chat group.

They're burning us.

We can't.

They burn us.

Come now, now, now, we're being shot, they shot us, come now.

He shot me through the door.

So I saw this one bullet took my arm here in the side, and a few seconds later I collapsed and fell out to the safe

from. Carmel both hands go because he's holding like that and the bullets

goes hit his arm.

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