Rotem Matias’s mother shielded him with her body as gunmen raided their kibbutz
“Mum and Dad are dead. Sorry. Call help,” Rotem messaged his family at 8.01 last Saturday morning. He lay under a quilt soaked in his mother’s blood as he typed.
Shachar Matias had used her body as a shield, a last great act of love towards her 16-year-old son, when Hamas gunmen broke into their home in Holit kibbutz.
