The 15-Year-Old Girl Who Helped Save Her Kibbutz From Hamas
Gali Eilon says she’s more a survivor than a hero for acting as a dispatcher of sorts on October 7, aiding IDF soldiers in the battle against Hamas terrorists and collecting the locations of injured residents.
When Gali Eilon woke up on October 7, she could not fathom that she would become a hero for many families in her community of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. The 15-year-old with blonde hair was at her grandmother’s home on Saturday morning when the first rocket alarm sounded, a common occurrence for the Gaza border kibbutz.
No one could have anticipated that alongside the rocket alarms, scores of Hamas terrorists were about to invade the pastoral kibbutz — on motorcycles and paragliders, armed with RPGs, Molotov cocktails, and assault rifles, ready to set homes to fire and massacre whole families.
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