A native of a Gaza border kibbutz weaves together stories from before and after October 7

One moment is etched in my memory from the morning of October 8. After hours spent rushing to shelters, scrolling through news and social media feeds, trying to make sense of the total defeat in the south, one of the senior editors at Haaretz shared a message on a WhatsApp group: "They say Sivan's kibbutz has been completely annihilated."

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