Israeli teen ran 'operations room' as Hamas came to kill her family

In an airstrike by IDF forces, a man lost 24 members of his family as the house and surrounding buildings were destroyed.

24 members of their family, dead. I can't even comprehend how they would go about grieving for that many people at once.

Stories like this are difficult to read. I am more than twice her age and likely would struggle to keep my composure in such trying circumstances, but it Pales in comparison to what's happening to their neighbours.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

TEL HASHOMER, Israel, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Over one desperate and blood-soaked Saturday, Hadar Bachar was transformed from an ordinary 13-year-old girl into the coordinator of her family's fight to survive a Hamas onslaught.

Like other residents of Israeli border villages overrun by the armed Palestinian infiltrators on Oct. 7, the Bachars barricaded themselves in a "safe room" built to weather rocket barrages from Gaza.

In the chaos and cacophany, she used her mobile phone and those of her parents to call emergency services that would not reach her home in Kibbutz Beeri for hours yet.

"It needs to be understood: A 13-year-old girl is running an operations room, with three phones at the same time," Avida recalled with grim pride from a hospital where he was recovering after the amputation of one of his wounded legs.

From the village's WhatsApp groups, the Bachars learned in real-time that Hamas was on a house-to-house killing spree - and that such a fate awaited them if they emerged from hiding.

They torched the tires to create a thicker smoke - black, that you can’t breathe - to make people escape outside through the windows," Hadar said.

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While I agree that Palestinian civilians are suffering on a much larger scale, the crimes of Hamas and the suffering of innocent Israelis should not be discounted.