I'm very sorry about what happened first of all. Second of all, can you tell me how it started?

Yes, yes. My wife and I and our two daughters, living Kibutsna halos, which is a beautiful community on the border with Gaza.

And we are very proud and still are to be members of this community.

Yesterday morning at 6 a.m., we heard a whistle and we realized that bombs are falling.

We are very attuned to these kinds of things and actually in every house in our community, there is what we call a safe room,

which is a room that is built of very strong concrete and has a special kind of door that is supposed to withstand the fall of mortars and rockets.

And that's usually where the children sleep.

So we just ran to the safe room, closed the window, closed the door and then we just waited for it to be over.

But then we started hearing gunfire. Gunfire very close and if we came closer and closer.

And that's when we realized we're in a different kind of event.

Then we realized that there are tourists inside our neighborhood and at some point outside our window.

We could hear them talk, we could hear them run, we could hear them shooting guns at our house, at our windows.

There was no military anywhere in sight.

And at that moment we realized that we are here alone.

We are going to stay in there and pray basically.

I have to say my, my daughters were really heroes.

Our oldest is three and a half years old and our younger is a year and a half.

We told them they have to be quiet and so for nine hours my girls have not eaten anything.

They have not gotten out of the safe room.

We have no electricity, we have no phone, we have no light.

And around 3.30 I think it was.

This is nine and a half hours into the ordeal.

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