Kan 7.10.360 | Avital Aladjem from Kibbutz Holit on October 7

With the alarm sounding, Avital enters her home's safe room.

Following the gunfire heard from outside, Dr. Haim Katzman calls his neighbor, Avital, to ensure her safety and says he will come to her house when there is a lull in the shooting.

Dr. Katzman arrives at Avital's house, asks about her well-being, and goes to check on her neighbor next door, Tehila Katabi. Haim returns to Avital and reports that Tehila has been murdered. While the shooting outside continues, Avital and Haim hide inside the closet in the safe room for several hours. Friends and acquaintances from around the country reach out on WhatsApp and try to help — but no one comes.

Six terrorists arrive at the house and start shooting everywhere. Haim absorbs the bullets and is murdered. One of the terrorists finds Avital, who is hiding in the closet, and forces her to put on additional clothes over her own. She takes out three skirts and covers her legs, shoulders, and head with them. The terrorist moves her to the living room, where other terrorists are located. They hold Negev (3.5 years) and Eshel (4 months), the small children of her neighbor, Adi Vital-Kaplun.

Avital and the children are moved from house to house. In one of the houses, a family hides inside the safe room. The terrorists order Avital to convince them to come out, but the family members refuse, and by doing so, they are saved.

The terrorists continue to lead Avital and the children from house to house until they are eventually moved through a loophole in the kibbutz fence all the way to Rafah. Avital holds baby Eshel in her arms, while one of the terrorists carries Negev, who was injured, on his shoulders. Negev shouts that he wants to come down, but the terrorists keep walking toward Rafah. Avital leads the convoy of about ten terrorists. Occasionally, the terrorists take Eshel away from her and let her carry an RPG instead. Negev is on the terrorist's shoulders at the end of the convoy. They cross the breached fence and enter the outskirts of Rafah.

About two kilometers from the houses in Rafah, the terrorists suddenly tell Avital that she and the children can go. One of the terrorists takes Negev off his shoulders and runs with the rest of the terrorists toward the Gaza Strip. Avital and the children are left alone, a few hundred meters inside Gaza. After all the terrorists walk past them, she begins walking with the children back toward Israel.

Near the border fence, Avital notices another squad of terrorists. She hides with the children behind a sand hill. The terrorists spot her but continue on their way to Gaza.

The journey toward the kibbutz continues under heavy shelling and fear of more terrorists on the way. Upon their arrival at the kibbutz fence, Avital bends part of the fence, and she and the children manage to get into Holit. When they return to the neighborhood from which they were kidnapped, a kibbutz member comes out to them and brings them into one of the houses, where two other survivors of the massacre are staying.

Under constant gunfire, Avital and the children travel with three members of Kibbutz Holit to Kibbutz Gvulot. Along the way, Avital is exposed to the bodies lying by the roadside and the burned cars.

Anni Kaplon, the father of Eshel and Negev, who was staying at a party near Nirim and was saved, arrives at Kibbutz Gvulot escorted by the IDF and reunites with his children.