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KIBBUTZ NIRIM, Israel — Adele Raemer shows me the broken slats in the shutters outside her front window.
Hamas terrorists had begun breaking into her home on October 7, as she and her son hid in the “safe room” inside. Suddenly, someone called the terrorists away, and they left.
After eleven hours in hiding, she and her son would be rescued. But they were lucky.
Hamas terrorists murdered five residents of the kibbutz and abducted five more — three women, who were freed last November, and two men, who were executed. They destroyed 30 homes and damaged 45 more.
They killed the first three Israeli soldiers on the scene, including a senior officer, Col. Asaf Hamami.
Had it not been for the fact that a Hamas mortar had inadvertently disabled the back gate of the kibbutz, there would have been more dead, more hostages.
Today, Raemer is back in Nirim — not to mourn, but to rebuild.
As we sit in her living room, there is a knock on the door: volunteers have arrived to help prepare her house for repainting. The volunteers are all female Israeli soldiers, all new immigrants from abroad.
IDF soldiers arrive to help repaint Adele Raemer’s home in Kibbutz Nirim,…
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