Shoshi, a nurse of the kibbutz of Tze’elim, never imagined how much her kibbutz would require her services on that horrific Saturday, October 7, 2023.
That morning, Shoshi went outside her house, which is located next to the town gate and noticed about 400 people, some of whom were bleeding, some shot and wounded, some traveling in vehicles with bullet holes – towards her kibbutz, desperate for help.

Shoshi, a nurse at Adi Negev Rehabilitation Hospital, who was at home that day, immediately ran to the kibbutz clinic to help the regular nursing staff.
These were the sights she saw: "I arrive at the clinic, the regular nurses are already admitting patients, treating them and another victim enters, and another, and we are classifying them – those with bullets or who are bleeding are treated, anyone who is seriously wounded we try to evacuate. There were severely wounded people. The rest were led to the dining room, which has three floors, so there is room. Mattresses were placed on the floor and our community manager operated an event that I couldn’t believe its magnitude. To this day, I shake my head and it's hard to believe this happened".

At the end of hours of intensively caring for many wounded people, Shoshi concludes: "I don't want to say that we are heroines because the heroes are the ones who defend us at the front".

For us, she is a real hero.

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