A story getting widespread attention on social media, and on television, and not only in the United States, is that of the Berdichevsky family, who lived in Kfar Aza, the tiny kibbutz where many of the worst atrocities took place. When the Hamas murderers rode into the kibbutz on motorbikes early on the morning of October 7, the young couple, Itai and Hadar Berdichevsky, sprang into action. Hadar and Itai Berdichevsky, both 30 years old, were determined that whatever happened to them, they would fight to the last, no doubt realizing that they would soon be killed. They would make sure that their twin 10-month-old baby boys would be survive. The parents’ heroism and sacrifice has even been presented on CBS News. More on this story can be found here: “Israeli twin babies found hidden and unharmed at kibbutz where Hamas killed their parents,” by Li Cohen, CBS News, October 12, 2023:
An Israeli kibbutz just miles from the Gaza Strip was the scene of a massacre on Saturday [October 7] when Hamas terrorists attacked. Amid what officials described as a “haunting” scene, they also uncovered [sic] that twin babies less than a year old had miraculously survived — because their young parents hid them just before being murdered by the militants.
They knew that if they didn’t, their children would be killed. The mother, Hadar, having put the babies into their safe room, instead of remaining in her own shelter, emerged to fill their bottles. Her body was found in the kitchen, along with the bottles she had taken to refill. It is believed that she tried to fight, in the kitchen, before being shot to death. Meanwhile, like Hadar without a weapon, her husband Itai tried with his bare hands to fight off the killers. What damage he may have inflicted, and how long he lasted before being murdered, is not known. Here is what Hadar’s brother, Dvir Rosenfeld, told to 60 Minutes: “Israeli couple who were killed protecting their twin babies from Hamas gunmen ‘were heroes,’ family says,” by Norah O’Donnell, Alicia Hastey, Adam Verdugo, Justine Redman, and Carrie Rabin, CBS News, October 13, 2023:
…Rosenfeld believes she [Hadar] was likely killed when she left her own shelter.
“I know for sure that is what happened,” Rosenfeld said. “She went out to bring the bottles, because they [the IDF soldiers who first came on the scene] said that there were bottles on the floor. And when she did, they just got into her apartment.”
At that point, Hadar might have raced back to her safe room, but that would have led the Hamas murderers to seek her out, and then they would likely have found, as well, where the babies had been hidden, and murder all of them. She chose instead to save the twins by remaining outside their safe room and battling furiously against the invaders.
Hadar’s body was found in the kitchen. Her husband, Itay Berdichevsky, was found between the beds of their 10-month-old babies, who survived.
“I know that Itay died trying to protect them,” Rosenfeld said. “And I can’t imagine what he been through knowing his wife just got murdered, and his two sons are next to him, and he’s the only thing between the terrorists and the babies.”
The babies were at this point in their shelter, not in their beds. Their father was still fighting off, as best he could, the Hamas men in the house, knowing that his wife was already dead, and hoping to distract the Hamas terrorists from finding the babies. And he did. And he died.
For fourteen hours they [the twin baby boys] were alone, hungry, drenched in their own sweat and urine, crying uncontrollably, until finally found by the emergency rescue services..
The mass killing occurred at the Kfar Aza kibbutz, a community just a few miles from the Gaza border. Israeli officials previously said that when Israel Defense Forces arrived at the kibbutz, they found “blood spread out in homes.”…
“Imagine the horror,” Segev tweeted. “Two terrified parents who tried with all their might to protect their children, who are now orphans.”
It’s a haunting scene: the young parents fighting desperately, unarmed, against killers, and trying to distract them from finding where their babies had been hidden. May that haunt many people in the Western world, and stiffen their resolve to support Israel unreservedly, when they are being deluged with sickening claims that Israel is to blame, Israel is a “settler colonial” and “apartheid” state, and even, among those completely demented by antisemitism, that Israel is “no better than Hamas.”
Transmaster says
And there are sumbitches that are denying the baby killing happened. Tell that to the emotionally destroyed Fox News reporter Trey Yingst who with his own eyes saw the decapitated babies, and blood soaked baby beds, and their mutilated parents.
somehistory says
The first report I read on this was that the couple had guns and killed seven hamas members, who were found by Israeli officers on the couple’s doorstep. Perhaps that was a different couple with twins.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Yes, I saw that story, about their killing seven Hamas men, at one website –https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/israeli-couple-kills-7-hamas-terrorists-to-1696948992.html But I haven’t seen it reported anywhere else, and I assume it was incorrect, though how much one would like to believe it.
somehistory says
I can’t recall on which site I saw making the report via msn.
Either way, these people were thinking first of their babies. And that is worth remembering and respecting them.
Fitna says
Hamas and their supporters, funders all deserve eradication…along with all other terrorist groups.
I’m glad Israel now got the message though sadly it required the sacrifice of the lives of innocents for people to figure it out. You cannot live in peace with people who want you dead.
Stories like this just boil my blood…makes me want to sign up with the IDF and murk as many of these maggots as I could find, till they’re all gone.
But let’s not lose sight of the real enemy…Islam. Hamas is just one of its many evil heads…the beast must be destroyed.
Those people in western nations that hold demonstrations in support of Hamas need to be deported immediately. It’s good that some countries like France have banned these meetings, but that’s not enough…jail, deportation or worse is what they need.
Who seriously thinks we can live with them side by side in our countries? They are Hamas in the UK, Europe, US, Canada…eventually they’ll do to us what they did to Israel.
James Lincoln says
Fitna says,
“Those people in western nations that hold demonstrations in support of Hamas need to be deported immediately.”
Yes, if at all possible.
Fitna says
Indeed James, if they needed they can change laws or work existing ones to remove them.
James Lincoln says
Fitna,
I agree, some laws may need to be changed due to this existential threat.
Elizabeth Lawson says
I strongly support your point. NO country should accommodate these inhuman savages.
Goofy says
“You cannot live in peace with people who want you dead”.
So true and logical, but who dares to say such things publicly?
Hudders. says
The religion of ‘peace’ at it’s finest once again.
What inspirational bravery this couple showed, as the islamic terrorist scum did what they love most to do.
May the Lord God grant Itai & Hadar Berdichevsky true PEACE now in His arms
& comfort & succour to family, friends & all who suffered at the hand of these desert death demons.
Islam 101. The religion of ‘peace.’
DAVID MacKay says
ISLAM = HAMAS, ISIS, HEZBOLAH, etc
joanofark06 says
And this is what the bible says about “them”….
By peace he shall destroy many. Daniel 8:25
Yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.”
And these things will they do unto you, because they have not known the Father, nor Me. John 16:2-3
DAVID MacKay says
This is what happens when you listen to Israel’s Marxist leftist regulator who don’t want you to have weapons to please the EEF Nazis
Aum says
Brave.
OLD GUY says
Why do the western governments leadership still ignore the elephant in the room, “ISLAM”. The leadership of the islamic cult want to destroy all non-islamic countries and to take them over. Not only is it apparent through their speeches and written words they continually prove it through their actions against innocent non-muslim/islamic people. Yes the oil and money are important. But are they worth the destruction of your society and freedom?
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Ralph says
If I ever needed a reason to support and admire Israel, which I always have, if would be by looking at the photograph of these two wonderful, self-sacrificing parents, and their two tiny babies. There is no compromise with the fiends that did this and other terrorist acts against the Jews. There are no “two sides of the story” here. Islam is the curse of the earth and should be eradicated.