On video: 87 days after being taken captive by Hamas, hostages from Bari returned to their destroyed homes/Uri Sela, Avi Rokah
My family and I survived the inferno of October 7th.
At any given moment we could not be here.
When the terrorists murdered the neighbor on the floor below me, they went up to our house.
They tried to open the door.
There was a lot of traffic but luckily the door didn't open because Eli made sure to secure it.
Still scared to death.
The terrorists set fire to our house and we in MMD are suffocating from the smell of gas and the thick smoke and can hardly breathe. We decided that
we would not die like this today. We realized that we had to jump. We have terrorists and that we don't jump to our deaths. The area is clean. We all jumped, me and our three children, from the window of the MMD on the second floor.
My son with them broke his foot, Yahel was also injured.
The neighbors who happened to see us from the window rushed to help us get to their house.
This is how we survived the massacre inside the kibbutz in the Shouri family's MMD.
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During the evacuation, we again saw death with our eyes when terrorists sprayed the bus we were traveling in.
We all have peace in the body, the mind is crushed.
We lost 100 of our beloved friends.
We still have 11 abductees in Gaza and they have been there for almost 5 months.
Life is an illusion.
Until they come back to us we will never really be able to produce a routine that makes sense.
I understand that no one came when we jumped from the window, no one came to take care of the wounded who bled to death, no one came to save the abductees who are still there, and today when I have no home to return to, the housing allowance is being cut.
There is no one to talk to and no one just comes!
This is our basic expectation that the state, the army will protect us and the citizens will take care of us.
I am very angry!
But it doesn't help me to be angry.
So what I realized during my life and became more and more clear to me starting on October 7, is that when no one comes I have me is a knowledge that is important for each and every one of us to have: we have us and that's a lot.
We can only trust ourselves.
There is something soothing about it.
The knowledge that within us we have all the powers and resources we need so that in the most difficult moments we can discover in ourselves abilities that we did not imagine.
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