The war in which Israel finds itself also brings with it stories that rarely combine both a tragedy and a miracle from heaven.
Such is the story of Daria (10) and Lavi (8.5) Karp, Reut Karp's two small children from Kibbutz Reim, who were preparing for Simchat Torah with their father Dvir and his late girlfriend Stav, who also lived on the kibbutz.
Reut Karp and her daughter Daria at the exciting moment of reunion,
Reut went to celebrate the holiday in Yehud, far from her children, not imagining the damn nightmare that awaits her, her family and her children, but a nightmare that could have been much worse.
At 08:20 A.M., the gates of hell opened on the children, the father and his girlfriend. Terrorists entered their home, and when Dvir tried to protect his children and girlfriend fiercely and jumped on the terrorists with an axe, he was slaughtered in cold blood in front of them. Soon after, Stav was also murdered while trying to protect the children.
Dvir and Reut Karp with children Lavi (right), Lia (center) and Daria (bottom), photo: from the family album
At that time, the mother Reut was extremely anxious and attached to the phone. "At 08:24 A.M., Dvir wrote me a message that there was heavy gunfire and a big mess in the kibbutz. A few minutes later, at <>:<> A.M., Daria wrote to me on her father's phone: 'Mom is Daria, Dad was murdered. Autumn too. Help.'"
Reut says that for three hours she was on the line with her children, witnessing the massacre live and trying to support her children emotionally, to calm them as much as possible, to breathe with them together. "Daria whispered to me that she hears other terrorists in the house, that she is afraid to move," the mother says, "and I calm her down, breathe with her, instruct her to shut up while she is next to the bodies all the time, frightened by the sights and the situation."
"Mom, help." The chilling correspondence between Daria and Reut Karp, from the phone of the late father Dvir,
Fortunately, the vile terrorists did not harm the children. "The terrorist came to Daria and my Lavi, but fortunately and surprisingly he chose to calm them down and even covered them with a blanket. He took lipstick and wrote on the wall, 'Alqasem's people don't murder small children.'
"Then came my children's guardian angel, Kibbutz member Golan Sefton. He was armed with a pistol and risked himself for the safety of my children. He took them to his safe home and cared for them with devotion with his amazing wife."
"They don't murder small children." The inscription left by the terrorists on the wall of the house in Kibbutz Reim,
After what seemed like an eternity, Daria and Lavi came to a loving embrace in their mother's arms. Their older sister Lia (13), Dvir's eldest daughter and Reut, who fortunately was not with the family that morning but went to spend the holiday with a friend in Moshav Ein HaBashor, is still in the same moshav near Gaza.
"My children were on the kibbutz for long hours, with them and me going through a nerve-racking and anxious time," Reut describes. "I couldn't breathe or think clearly until I was reunited with them, breathed them, felt them."
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