00:00 Hi, good evening, good morning, wherever you are.
00:05 My name is Noam Peri.
00:08 I'm 40 years old.
00:10 My parents, Haim and Osnat, are living or have lived in Kibbutz Niroz.
00:18 Actually they are one of the founders of Kibbutz Niroz and they've been living there for the
00:25 past 60 years.
00:27 Kibbutz Niroz is very near the border with Gaza and it's a peaceful community usually
00:36 of around 350 people.
00:40 My family, my friends, they call this place their home.
00:47 On Saturday morning around 7am they woke up into a different type of situation.
00:57 Dozens of terrorists invaded the Kibbutz and started butchering the residents, going house
01:05 by house.
01:08 They butchered my friends, people I grew up with.
01:14 There is no family in the Kibbutz that was left unhurt.
01:23 Everyone I know has at least one family member that was kidnapped or brutally murdered.
01:33 The survivors will take a long time to recover.
01:37 The houses are burned and shattered and so is everyone's heart.
01:47 I can give you the numbers that we know of.
01:52 From around 350 Kibbutz members, more than 20 were murdered and 80 are currently missing,
02:03 probably kidnapped.
02:04 24 of those are elderly, above 75 years old, unhealthy people.
02:14 15 of them are kids, toddlers and even babies.
02:20 My own father, Chaim Perin, is almost 80 years old.
02:27 He is a caring husband, a wonderful father of five children and a grandfather of 13 grandchildren.
02:36 He heard the terrorists break into the house while he was with my mother.
02:45 He was able to push the terrorists away, giving my mother precious minutes to hide and this
02:52 is how they took him and she was saved and she is here.
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