“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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/14/hamas-attack-survivor-tes…