Ayal Young talks from his hospital bed in Israel after being shot in his right cheek and back when his kibbutz was attacked

Lying in a hospital bed in Beer Sheva, Ayal Young is beginning to feel stronger. He has a bullet lodged in his right cheek and he almost died when Hamas attacked his home at kibbutz Alumim last Saturday. His neighbours somehow rescued him after he was shot in the face and back, and he is on the mend after life-saving surgery.

“Families, children, men, women … they didn’t care who it was,” Young says. “They were not attacking soldiers. They were attacking people in their homes. They came and hurt whoever they saw. It didn’t matter if it was a soldier, a medic, a baby, a boy or a girl. They came to slaughter us. Luckily we could defend ourselves.”

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