Posted on Oct 12, 2023
Ex-soldier fought off Hamas and saved kibbutz neighbours
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One of the first Israeli settlements to come under attack when Hamas militants surged into Israel early on Saturday morning was the Nir Am kibbutz, where local people put up a fierce defence and drove the attackers away.
"I took my pistol, my clothes, my bulletproof vest and the other thing was cigarettes," Adam says, calmly recounting being jolted from his bed by the sound of gunfire at 06:30 on Saturday. "We started to kill everyone who came to the fence."
He's been labelled the hero of Nir Am, the saviour of his kibbutz, a community of around 400 people living just 2km (1.2 miles) from Gaza.
"I took the walkie-talkie and I said this line again and again: 'No-one will enter Nir Am, no-one will enter Nir Am.'"
"I took my pistol, my clothes, my bulletproof vest and the other thing was cigarettes," Adam says, calmly recounting being jolted from his bed by the sound of gunfire at 06:30 on Saturday. "We started to kill everyone who came to the fence."
He's been labelled the hero of Nir Am, the saviour of his kibbutz, a community of around 400 people living just 2km (1.2 miles) from Gaza.
"I took the walkie-talkie and I said this line again and again: 'No-one will enter Nir Am, no-one will enter Nir Am.'"
Ex-soldier fought off Hamas and saved kibbutz neighbours
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel good day Brother William, always informational and of the most interesting. Thanks for sharing, have a blessed day!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
...""We thought it was all good but then came the second wave, between eight to 10 terrorists with machine guns, with rocket-propelled grenades… They were close, 10m to 15m. I ran towards them and stood and shot and killed… a bullet to the head."
What was he feeling in the heat of this gun battle? "My mind is regular I'm a warrior, I'm a fighter, this is what I'm built for."
And he was clear what was at stake. The people of Nir Am would have been slaughtered, he says, just as they were at some other kibbutzim, communities organised as collectives, often farms.
"They will run to the houses and kill the women and the kids. That kept us fighting, killing. We didn't let anybody get into the kibbutz. Nobody got hurt.""...
...""We thought it was all good but then came the second wave, between eight to 10 terrorists with machine guns, with rocket-propelled grenades… They were close, 10m to 15m. I ran towards them and stood and shot and killed… a bullet to the head."
What was he feeling in the heat of this gun battle? "My mind is regular I'm a warrior, I'm a fighter, this is what I'm built for."
And he was clear what was at stake. The people of Nir Am would have been slaughtered, he says, just as they were at some other kibbutzim, communities organised as collectives, often farms.
"They will run to the houses and kill the women and the kids. That kept us fighting, killing. We didn't let anybody get into the kibbutz. Nobody got hurt.""...
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