Kibbutz survivor: ‘We could no longer be refugees in our own country’

(JNS) “We see burned-out houses or areas destroyed by RPGs. We remember that a friend or a neighbor was murdered in every house,”  Shahar Snurman, 62, a resident of Kibbutz Kfar Aza and a survivor of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, told JNS.

“It gives me the strength to stay and rebuild,” he added.

On Oct. 7, Snurman, 62, and his wife, Ayelet Kohn, 56, hid in their safe room for hours. At one point, Snurman received a call from a friend asking him to help locate his wife.

“We knew...