The home of Shay, Keren, and their two children became the refuge of dozens of residents who had been evacuated. A few hours earlier, terrorists had penetrated the house - but failed to break through the safe room, where Keren waited with a cocked gun. While Shay, a member of the emergency squad, fought terrorists across the Kibbutz.

Shay Asher. Photo: Eyal Bribram
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As the first sound of alarms in the kibbutz, Deputy Ravshatz (Military Ongoing Security Coordinator) Shay Asher receives a message from Roni Spadge, the Ravshatz, instructing him and the other emergency squad members to check that their equipment is in order. “You never know where this story will lead,” he adds. While Shay's wife, Karen, and their two children enter the safe room
Shay and other members of the emergency squad receive another message from the Military Security Coordinator that they are “in the midst of a complex incident”
Shay tries to contact Roni the Security coordinator - unsuccessfully
Keren tries to communicate with her neighbors on the kibbutz, but some do not answer. Shay arms her with a gun
Saar Margolis, Shay's friend in the emergency squad, arrives at his house. Immediately afterward, they go out together to fight the terrorists.
Saar and Shay go to the house of Roni. Near Roni's house, they notice squads of terrorists and decide to head back towards the center of the kibbutz. In the hours that follow, they hide and wait for the terrorists and manage to injure several of them

After long hours of waiting, troops from the 51st Battalion from Golani and the 450th Battalion from the Comanders School arrive at the kibbutz. Saar and Shay split up, Saar joins the 450th Battalion, while Shay, the 51st Battalion
Terrorists break into the home of the Asher family. Keren holds the door of the safe room with one hand, a gun in the other. Itai, their eldest son, updates Shay with a message that terrorists have infiltrated their home
Shay tries to contact his children - unsuccessfully
The terrorists search the house, but fail to open the door of the safe room. Before they leave, they cause a lot of destruction
Shay arrives at the house with Golani fighters and meets his family. A Company Commander from the 51st Battalion accompanying the force spreads ketchup on three windows that the terrorists had earlier smashed in order to fool the terrorists into thinking that their comrades were already in this house. Shay's family goes back to hide in the safe room

In an attempt to take control of the event, the soldiers concentrate the rescued residents in several houses - one of which is the home of the Asher family. Several dozen residents come to the house and stay in it under the security of IDF fighters
More army troops arrive at the family home under the direction of members of the emergency squad, rescuing dozens of residents who had been hiding in it for the past few hours without electricity. From there they are evacuated to hotels in the Dead Sea
Roni and Shay meet in the morning the next day. Roni informs Shay that Saar was killed in the battles for the kibbutz
Shay is left to secure the kibbutz, while his family is evacuated with the rest of the kibbutz to a hotel
Destruction in Kissufim after the massacre.
Destruction in Kissufim after the massacre.
המתחם האינטראקטיבי של מפת העוטף ב-7 באוקטובר 2023 נועד לתעד ולהנציח את האירועים שהתרחשו ביישובי עוטף עזה באמצעות תיעודים מזמן אמת, דקה אחר דקה.
הפרויקט בהליכי בנייה ותחקיר, בשלבים הבאים יתווספו נקודות רבות על המפה, לרבות בסיסי צה”ל, הרחבת אזורי המסיבות והדרכים המובילות לעוטף.
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אזהרה: התוכן מכיל תיאורים ותיעודים קשים לצפייה