-I woke up half past 6:00 in the morning.

I was sitting outside drinking my coffee on the terrace in front of the house, and all of a sudden there was a noise.

It's all coming above our head.

The sky became white.

[ Missiles roaring ] -From Gaza, Hamas launched 3,000 rockets at Israel on October 7th.

The barrage overwhelmed Israel's air defense system known as Iron Dome.

In the chaos, Hamas terrorists broke through fortified border fences and invaded Israel.

-So I told my husband, "I'm going to see what happened with the neighbor."

And he says, "You're not going out with that noise."

And he says, "I will go."

And he went, and he came back after maybe five minutes, which is a long because -- which is a lot because it's right next door.

And he says, "They murdered Meera."

And that was like an extreme shock, because you have to understand, the possibility of terrorists coming into the kibbutz is always in the back of your mind when you're living so close to Gaza.

But we were driven into the belief that we are safe.

There is a very smart fence and there are soldiers over there, and even if they pass the fence, the soldier will come and attack them and protect us.

So we start calling people, telling that our neighbor was murdered, and we understood very quickly that... there's nobody... that's going to come.

[ Gunshots firing ] So we closed the door of the safe room.

We closed the window with the iron screen, and we say, "Okay, we'll sit here and we wait.

It will take a few hours.

The army will come and will free us."

This is the safe room.

We were here for 30 hours.

And really early in the event, after maybe four or five hours, the electricity stopped.

There was no power at all.

And we realized the terrorists are really close to us, so we had to close the iron screen.

[ Screen rattling ] This is what you get.

Complete darkness.

And this is what we had for over 24 hours.