Benny Chasson, a resident of Kissufim, a kibbutz next to the Gaza border, told Channel 14 about how he ascertained that the IDF soldiers who rescued him weren’t Hamas terrorists in disguise.

When the terrorists stormed the kibbutz on Simchas Torah morning, they shouted, “IDF, IDF” in order to trick the residents into leaving their homes, a tactic they used in many other communities as well.

The terrorists perpetrated a massacre on the kibbutz, shooting people to death and setting houses on fire when residents refused to leave their bomb shelters – burning entire families alive. They even threw grenades inside the housing quarters of the foreign workers on the kibbutz. They threw a grenade at Chasson’s house as well but it didn’t explode.

As is well-known by now, anyone who survived waited hours and hours until help arrived. Chasson huddled in his safe room with his wife for 22 hours before he was rescued by IDF soldiers.

The terrorists had captured an IDF base on the kibbutz and Chasson could hear the soldiers screaming. He also could hear the terrorists, and as an Arabic speaker, he understood what they were shouting: “Kill the Jews.”

Chasson told Channel 14: “When the IDF came to rescue us, at 4 a.m. in the morning, the soldiers yelled, ‘IDF, IDF.’ I wasn’t sure if it was really soldiers. I said: ‘Complete this sentence – Shema Yisrael!’ They responded: ‘Hashem Elokeinu Hashem Echad!’ – then I knew it was real IDF soldiers.”

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)