The bloodied homes were later found with "Peace Now" stickers, reminiscent of Israel's far-Left organization.
The kibbutznikim themselves comprised far-Left secularists, some actively anti-religious and atheist, nearly all of whom supported the disruptive Left-wing demonstrations raging throughout the country prior to that horrible day.
Some came all the way from their southern kibbutzim to actively participate, both in favor of caving into Palestinian demands & to maintain the power of the hateful Leftist Supreme Court seeking to take over the government.
And they did so with the best of intentions.
These people wholeheartedly believed in the goodness of the Muslim-Arab people throughout the world, always dismissing the worst attacks and depravities as committed by "a small minority of them; most aren't like that at all — they all want peace."
They employed Muslims from Gaza, gave them gifts and gifts to their families to sustain them and just plain make them happy & their lives a little more pleasant.
These Jews wholeheartedly supported a 2-state solution, desperately wanting Muslims in Gaza to receive every freedom, regardless of its danger to Jews, believing these same Gazan Muslims would cease all their terror and warfare if only they received whatever they demanded.
One older lady from these communities even devoted herself to bringing people from Gaza for medical treatment in Israel, making arrangements and assisting the process with heartfelt dedication.
She suffered the same atrocity as everyone else on her kibbutzim and was held in captivity in Gaza too in the same appalling conditions as the others. (She was recently freed, baruch Hashem.)
The Horrifying Results of Secular Leftist "Love"
With so many around the world defending the Horror from Gaza as a natural result of "Israeli oppression," people ignore the realty of WHO those same "oppressed" Gazans attacked: the very people who loved, sympathized, and supported them the most.
We saw in the interview with Roni Gelbfish how she even duked it out (I think verbally) with the young Itamar Ben Gvir in front of Rabbi Meir Kahana on behalf of the Palestinians.
(Please see here: to-lose-everything-i-believed-in-my-entire-lifemy-ideology-now-looks-like-gaza-after-the-bombings.html)
You can imagine all the screaming and shouting that went on as she defended the Arab cause.
The far-Left pro-Arab anti-Torah party of Meretz was conceived and nurtured in her home by her parents and their friends.
She grew up in the area that later came under attack. The people there wholeheartedly supported the Muslim-Arabs in Gaza — politically, personally, socially, economically, and financially.
And those same Arabs came by the thousands — with lists of the names & addresses of the SAME Jews who supported them & cared for them! — and committed atrocities against them...for hours and hours. And even days.
Young, strapping male terrorists came with elderly Arab men, Arab women, and young Arab boys in their wake to loot, strip still-warm bodies of their wallets and devices, and abuse both dead Jews and live Jews.
And the predominantly secular government and the predominantly secular and Leftist military elite commanders KNEW...and not only did not prevent it, but carried out highly questionable actions that made it so difficult to stop the invasion once it started.
(Please see here for just one example: the-man-who-raised-the-alarm-1-month-ago-hamas-is-practicing-a-parallel-invasion-of-several-communities-and-they-removed-his-intelligence-gathering-systems-just-before-october-7th.html)
Do you see a pattern?
It's All in the 3500-Year-Old Contract
His wife and younger children went into the closet, a son stretched over them to protect them with his body, while another son (on leave from the army) and himself crouched in the corners with their guns out.
A terrorist shoved the nozzle of his AK-47 through the 5-centimeter crack in the shutters and started spraying bullets.
The entire family shouted: "Shema Yisrael, Hashem Elokeinu, Hashem Echad! — Hear O Israel, Hashem is our Lord, Hashem is One!"
The terrorist tried to enlarge the opening, then started throwing hand grenades, but the grenades kept bouncing back at the terrorists.
He then describes what happened next (in the section called B'ezrat Hashem, Nenatzeiach – With God's Help, We'll Win — but I can't find the link):
I was in shock. I got to Rishon [Letzion], found a grocery store owner, I saw he had a kippah and I said, "Listen to me, I need advice. Where can I go?"
He said, "There's a shul over here."
I go to the shul — the Martziano shul. I go up to the second floor and I see two guys learning Torah together.
I say, "You guys are the ones I'm looking for!"
They look as me as if thinking, Who's that nutcase?
I sat with them for an hour. And I just kept asking and questioning, and they kept answering me.
They explained to me what happened.
It's a contract. There's a study that shows one by one that Sefer Devarim [Deuteronomy] is a contract, just as if you have a standard rental contract from 3500 years ago — that's the format of the contract.
What's written in that contract?
You all shall go in My way, and He'll bequeath to you the dew of the Heavens and the fat of the Land. And it specifies: If you DON'T go in My way, that's what shall befall you.
And when you read what's written there...that's the contract.
And you should know that such a willingness to see God and to acknowledge one of the harsher Truths in Torah, the willingness to do exactly what Hashem wants when He sends such horrific Jew-hatred our way — to RETURN to Hashem — this sweetens any judgment, not only over him and his family, but over all Am Yisrael.
It's that powerful.
Their handguns could not save them in that scenario.
Two handguns cannot provide protection against an AK-47 spraying bullets into a closed room (while the metal shutters protected the terrorist shooter), nor can 2 handguns protect against hand grenades thrown into that room.
Furthermore, handguns do not contain a lot of bullets. The Jewish man and his son would've run out of bullets very quickly, leaving them at the mercy of the terrorists.