‘Help! They are burning us out, please come now!’ Heartbreaking plea of ten-year-old girl begging neighbours to rescue her as Hamas terrorists shot her mother and set their home on fire
- The girl’s mother and brother were killed during attack on Be’eri kibbutz
A ten-year-old girl begged neighbours to rescue her as Hamas terrorists shot her mother and set their home on fire at the Be’eri kibbutz last Saturday.
In a heart-breaking recording the youngster whispers: ‘Help! They are burning us [out], please come now!’
The girl made the impassioned plea to members of the close-knit community’s WhatsApp group on which neighbours usually ask each other for information or a helping hand.
But this time the schoolgirl begged for her life after the marauding gunmen had shot her mother and brother dead and injured her father.
The family had retreated to their safe room after the rocket attack alert sounded at about 6.30am last Saturday morning.
The pair were only saved after the Israel Defence Force [IDF] bombed the house, their neighbour Golan Abitol revealed (pictured left to right: Hagit and Golan Abitol, with son Yoav and daughter Libi and twins Keren and Ziv in the front)
The girl and her father were only saved after the Israel Defence Force [IDF] bombed the house, their neighbour Golan Abitol (pictured right) revealed
Hamas gunmen (pictured above) stormed the Be’eri kibbutz in southern Israel on October 7
But the bomb-proof shelter could not protect them from the fanatic’s bullets who fired their automatic weapons through the walls – killing her mother and brother and wounding her father.
The pair were only saved after the Israel Defence Force [IDF] bombed the house, their neighbour Golan Abitol revealed.
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Recalling the terrible events of Saturday, October 7, he said: ‘The father told the IDF to bomb the house. The safe room was designed to protect [from] bombs and both the girl and her father survived.’
Hamas gunmen had set the house on fire as part of a merciless plan to force the residents of the 1,000-strong Be’eri kibbutz – including British mother Lianne Sharabi and her daughters Yahel, 13, and Noiya, 16, – out of their homes to be shot or captured.
Golan remembers Somerset-born Lianne, who ran the kibbutz’s dental surgery as ‘fun-loving’ and ‘lovely’.
He said: ‘She made going to the dentist fun because she would put on Eighties music while you were having your work done.
‘She was a lovely lady. Her older daughter [Noiya] is a friend of my son and she had a heart of gold. They are a wonderful family.’
Hamas terrorists shot Lianne dead and fatally wounded her youngest daughter Yahel when they burst into their home.
The fanatics kidnapped Noiya and took her to Gaza along with dozens of other innocents. Their father is missing, feared kidnapped.
Another Briton, Jonathan Rapaport, Golan’s best friend, was also murdered in the attack that killed or captured one-in-ten members of the kibbutz that is 3km from Gaza.
In a heart-breaking recording the girl whispers: ‘Help! They are burning us [out], please come now!’ (pictured: a house set on fire in the Be’eri kibbutz)
Hamas shot or captured residents of the 1,000-strong Be’eri kibbutz – including British mother Lianne Sharabi (centre) and her daughters Yahel (left), 13, and Noiya (right), 16
Hamas terrorists shot Lianne dead and fatally wounded her youngest daughter Yahel when they burst into their home (pictured)
Hamas terrorists shot Lianne dead and fatally wounded her youngest daughter Yahel (left with her older sister Noiya) when they burst into their home. The fanatics kidnapped Noiya and took her to Gaza along with dozens of other innocents. Their father (centre) is missing, feared kidnapped
Golan, 44, a consultant for pharmaceutical companies, had arrived home from a work trip to Iceland just a few hours before the devastating Hamas attack on Israel that has stunned the world.
Like most of the kibbutz he was awoken by the sound of sirens and then rockets.
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Quite quickly the people in kibbutz, which is 3km from the Gaza border, realised this was no ordinary rocket attack – something they are all too used to.
Arab voices could be heard and then gunshots. His two youngest children – nine-year-old twins Keren and Ziv use the family’s safe room as their bedroom.
His two older children – 16-year-old son Yoav, daughter Libi, 14, and nursery teacher wife Hagit, 42 – quickly joined them while Golan, one of the few people at the Kibbutz Be’eri to have a gun at home, grabbed his nine-calibre weapon and stood guard outside.
From a vantage point on his balcony, Golan had a view over his neighbours’ homes.
He saw scores of terrorists and also a group rampaging dressed as Israeli policeman who were inviting people to open the door to them, pretending they could save them.
‘It was so scary,’ says Golan. ‘I was in the infantry in the army and I’ve seen terrorists before but when you are at home with just a pistol and they have RPGS [rocket propelled grenades], machine guns, grenades you feel helpless. I knew that I needed to do everything I could to stay quiet and not engage; my priority was to keep my family safe.’
After a few hours, when it was clear just how much danger the kibbutz was in and terrorists getting ever closer, Golan convinced his brother – who lived next door with his wife and young children – to run to his house and join his family in the safe room.
Hamas gunmen had set the house on fire (like the one pictured above) as part of a merciless plan to force the residents of the Be’eri kibbutz out of their homes to be shot or captured
At one point in the 14-hours Golan was standing guard, he saw his neighbour’s house had been set fire (similar to the one pictured above) too and warned them to get out; they managed to escape to another neighbour’s safe room
One kibbutz member – after his house was set on fire (like the one pictured above) – climbed out of the safe room window with his infant daughter in his arms; both were shot in cold blood while his wife and daughter were abducted
At one point in the 14-hours Golan was standing guard, he saw his neighbour’s house had been set fire too and warned them to get out; they managed to escape to another neighbour’s safe room.
The entire kibbutz – a community which eats almost all their meals together – was still helping each other via WhatsApp.
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As time went on the situation became ever more dire. One kibbutz member – after his house was set on fire – climbed out of the safe room window with his infant daughter in his arms; both were shot in cold blood while his wife and daughter were abducted.
Even when the IDF finally arrived they weren’t completely safe. After being taken to an exclusion zone, survivors of the battle were shot at by a lone terrorist.
Most of the community are now living in a hotel near the Dead Sea as they try to come to terms with the unthinkable and with so much still unknown.
The dead have started to be buried; a funeral takes place for the community and then the victim and their family are driven to the kibbutz cemetery which will be their final resting place.
There is no solace for this broken community, but they are together and helping each other.
Golan, meanwhile, has joined the identification unit of the IDF he was a reservist for.
He is now helping to sort out the DNA of the broken and burnt remains of the dead including his closest friends.
‘It is the worst place to be for anyone but it is my way of contributing and it helps me to be with my unit and takes the workload off them,’ he says.
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