Kibbutz Be'eri Resident Visits Kibbutz For First Time Since Oct. 7 Attack

BE'ERI, ISRAEL - DECEMBER 19: Yair Avital (L) and Nirit Hunwald (R), the Kibbutz Be’eri nurse, visits destroyed homes as she returns to her kibbutz for the first time since the Oct 7 attack by Hamas on December 19, 2023 in Be’eri, Israel. During the attack, Hunwald, along with paramedic, Amit Man, and doctor Daniel Levi treated several injured kibbutz rapid response team members, including team member Yair Avital, at the Dental clinic in the center of the kibbutz who had been defending the kibbutz against the attack. There, two other rapid response team members continued fighting off Hamas militants who were attacking the clinic, both were killed. Avital found himself playing dead covered in debris, vomit and blood in a small kitchenette located in the clinic after several grenades were thrown inside the clinic. Hunwald, took shelter hiding on the floor in a bathroom stall. After two hours hiding on the floor IDF soldiers arrived, Hunwald, who had texted her partner and kids (who were in the bomb shelter on the kibbutz) and her family saying her goodbyes, was rescued with Avital. Both assumed the other had been killed with everyone else, were taken out a back window. Hunwald recounted in an interview that once rescued she insisted in being reunited with her family before being evacuated from the kibbutz. December 20th marks 75 days when 100 people were killed and others were kidnapped from the kibbutz during the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas. (Photo by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Images)