Posted on 10/23/2023 7:44:58 AM PDT by SJackson
A story getting widespread attention on social media, and on television, and not only in the United States, is that of the Berdichevsky family, who lived in Kfar Aza, the tiny kibbutz where many of the worst atrocities took place. When the Hamas murderers rode into the kibbutz on motorbikes early on the morning of October 7, the young couple, Itai and Hadar Berdichevsky, sprang into action. Hadar and Itai Berdichevsky, both 30 years old, were determined that whatever happened to them, they would fight to the last, no doubt realizing that they would soon be killed. They would make sure that their twin 10-month-old baby boys would be survive. The parents’ heroism and sacrifice has even been presented on CBS News. More on this story can be found here: “Israeli twin babies found hidden and unharmed at kibbutz where Hamas killed their parents,” by Li Cohen, CBS News, October 12, 2023:
An Israeli kibbutz just miles from the Gaza Strip was the scene of a massacre on Saturday [October 7] when Hamas terrorists attacked. Amid what officials described as a “haunting” scene, they also uncovered [sic] that twin babies less than a year old had miraculously survived — because their young parents hid them just before being murdered by the militants.
They knew that if they didn’t, their children would be killed. The mother, Hadar, having put the babies into their safe room, instead of remaining in her own shelter, emerged to fill their bottles. Her body was found in the kitchen, along with the bottles she had taken to refill. It is believed that she tried to fight, in the kitchen, before being shot to death. Meanwhile, like Hadar without a weapon, her husband Itai tried with his bare hands to fight off the killers. What damage he may have inflicted, and how long he lasted before being murdered, is not known. Here is what Hadar’s brother, Dvir Rosenfeld, told to 60 Minutes: “Israeli couple who were killed protecting their twin babies from Hamas gunmen ‘were heroes,’ family says,” by Norah O’Donnell, Alicia Hastey, Adam Verdugo, Justine Redman, and Carrie Rabin, CBS News, October 13, 2023:
…Rosenfeld believes she [Hadar] was likely killed when she left her own shelter.
“I know for sure that is what happened,” Rosenfeld said. “She went out to bring the bottles, because they [the IDF soldiers who first came on the scene] said that there were bottles on the floor. And when she did, they just got into her apartment.”
At that point, Hadar might have raced back to her safe room, but that would have led the Hamas murderers to seek her out, and then they would likely have found, as well, where the babies had been hidden, and murder all of them. She chose instead to save the twins by remaining outside their safe room and battling furiously against the invaders.
Hadar’s body was found in the kitchen. Her husband, Itay Berdichevsky, was found between the beds of their 10-month-old babies, who survived.
“I know that Itay died trying to protect them,” Rosenfeld said. “And I can’t imagine what he been through knowing his wife just got murdered, and his two sons are next to him, and he’s the only thing between the terrorists and the babies.”
The babies were at this point in their shelter, not in their beds. Their father was still fighting off, as best he could, the Hamas men in the house, knowing that his wife was already dead, and hoping to distract the Hamas terrorists from finding the babies. And he did. And he died.
For fourteen hours they [the twin baby boys] were alone, hungry, drenched in their own sweat and urine, crying uncontrollably, until finally found by the emergency rescue services..
The mass killing occurred at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, a community just a few miles from the Gaza border. Israeli officials previously said that when Israel Defense Forces arrived at the kibbutz, they found “blood spread out in homes.”…
“Imagine the horror,” Segev tweeted. “Two terrified parents who tried with all their might to protect their children, who are now orphans.”
It’s a haunting scene: the young parents fighting desperately, unarmed, against killers, and trying to distract them from finding where their babies had been hidden. May that haunt many people in the Western world, and stiffen their resolve to support Israel unreservedly, when they are being deluged with sickening claims that Israel is to blame, Israel is a “settler colonial” and “apartheid” state, and even, among those completely demented by antisemitism, that Israel is “no better than Hamas.”
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Vivek is ok with this too by the way
An AR rifle or two might have come in handy. Too bad the Israeli government refused to respect their God given natural rights.
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This is a tragic and horrific incident. Is the report accurate when it says that these people who lived so close to a border with known terrorists were unarmed?
I did read that the Israeli government immediately relaxed all the ridiculous restrictions on private gun ownership, but had it not been in place, many many people would have survived.
Gun control kills people. This tragedy is but another example of it.
Israel needs Swiss-style gun ownership and a Second Amendment. The lack of such would have saved many lives.
OK with what...fighting back, or murdering Jews?
I study the American west and not the PC version
I’m always struck by the parallels here and 150 years later
The Comanches did this all over Texas repeatedly to settlers and the big raid with Iron Belly all the way from Amarillo to the Gulf including taking Austin briefly
Slaughtering civilians and taking prisoners they wanted or hostages though they tended to enslave or adopt
The Minnesota raid by the sioux during the civil war 1862 led by little crow when it looked like they might wipe the whites out until the union turned loose a brigade
Later 1960s the Congo rebels slaughtered white colonists similar magnitude and fashion with few survivors
The non sensible brutality more savage cultures are capable of should never be underestimated
Yet the west does over and over
And the only thing they ultimately respect is retribution
It looks like that’s coming of course western style
This event is definitely a wake up call
There are still savages out there
They HAVE TO extinguish them but unlike the sound and fury here I’m not in favor of a broader war
It’s part personal
And part fear of things getting out of hand and is unprepared
It’s so complicated over there in that way
Few here dig into that I’m sure you do
Anyhow
Keep their resolve and don’t let media push this narrative of proportional response too much
An armed populace could have saved many lives.
God Bless and keep Hadar and Itai.
Some were
Most kibbutz had security teams
Only one responded effectively
Led by a former IDF gal who was paying attention and rallied her guys
I was surprised
You see beautiful Israeli gals actually on beaches Tel Aviv with full auto so you’d think border spots would have been harder
blame the israeli government for these unarmed deaths! 😢
The Hammy murderers and all of those in America who support them need to be destroyed. Evil needs to be destroyed in the world so civilized people can survive.
I continue to say, I cannot believe Israeli citizens would NOT be armed, especially this close to the border!
Those poor people! I cannot imagine the horror!
A gun is the great equalizer!
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Like Chicago, a “gun free zone” so how could anyone die?
Exactly. A bunch of AR-15s in private hands would have saved hundreds and hundreds of lives here....and would have resulted in a lot more dead goat effers.
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