(Telegraph-UK) Anita Singh - "One Day in October" (Channel 4), marking the anniversary of the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, features survivors of the massacre at Kibbutz Be'eri telling their stories. Emily Hand spent her ninth birthday in Hamas captivity before she was released. Her father, Irish-born Tom Hand, says, "Last night in the car, she just told me that she saw at least 12 dead bodies at the fence. People that she knows, dead at the side of the road." It is the stuff of nightmares, as families huddled in bomb shelters while the killers closed in. CCTV captured heavily-armed Hamas men swarming into the compound. Survivors saw husbands, wives and children die in front of them. One 15-year-old boy, his life ebbing away, asked his father if he could be buried with his surfboard.
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