attack the party from several directions. it was one of the worst days in israel's history, its people killed in cold blood, hundreds of hostages dragged away, a nation traumatised. i'm anna foster and, for the bbc, i spoke to those who survived, who lost loved ones on october 7th or have family members still held hostage in gaza. this is their story. we drove, we tried to pass people running cos everyone was scattered around, and we also tried to help out people to take them with us. we already uploaded most of our equipment, so we didn't have much room, but we tried to save people on the way. they were fleeing for their lives. they were trying to find a way to get out of there as fast as they could with minimum damage. at 6:30 in the morning, gilad karplus was at the nova music festival when red alert sirens began to sound in southern israel. sirens wail it's a familiar noise and it means that rockets are being fired from gaza. israelis living in those border communities know the drill well but this time, something was different. i didn't see — i heard. it was 6:30 in the morning and we were asleep. naomi adler was with her husband and three children at home in the kibbutz of nahal 0z. my three boys were asleep in their room, which is our shelter, and we woke up to ten minutes of non—stop bombings. we ran into the safe room, shut the door — the metal door — shut the metal window and just stayed there for ten minutes, non—stop. and we live on a halutz. we know bombings. we know sirens. this was nothing like that. ifelt like bombs were being thrown on my head. and itjust didn't stop for ten long minutes. and my husband and i just held each other and i was just saying, "what the hell's going on? what the hell's going on? "what is this? what is this?" and it just wouldn't stop. shouting gunfire as the violent attacks started to spread, hamas�*s military wing announced in a ten—minute recorded message published online the start of what it called 0peration al—aqsa flood. it urged palestinians to attack israeli communities with whatever weapons they had. chanting in nahal oz, the idan family took shelter inside their safe room but it didn't protect them from what was to be a horrifying ordeal. at the nova music festival, hamas attackers had begun to shoot and kill. more than 260 partygoers were murdered at the site. i spoke to gilad, unplanned, just two days later, on october 9. we saw him in the street with a white bandage around his head and asked if he'd been attacked. the bullet went through here and through out here. so, it went — yeah, you can see it. it went in and out. yeah. we got into a collision course with eight terrorists. they wore half military uniform — israeli uniform. they wore shirts — israeli military shirts — and they were ridden on motorcycles, and guns. we hit two of them with our car and they started chasing us and they shot a bullet on the side. and from the shrapnel of that bullet, it hit my head in the back. i start bleeding. i don't know what was the situation there, if i had a bullet in my skull or not, i didn't know anything — i just only knew i need to hold my head stuck here as i can, so i won't bleed out. and i also had to stay awake cos i couldn't go to sleep. i knew that if i was going to sleep, i think it would be over. i didn't know what's going on. later on, we got into a kibbutz called be�*eri. at first, we honked our horn because we thought maybe there was a security guard that can give us any information or anything like that. and firstly, we knew that there was nothing there. we found a shower bathroom unit. we broke in. we had to break the glass and get inside and hide. and because all the floor was with the glass, we had to stay super quiet because we knew that every minute, they can know where we were. by now, israelis were waking to live news reports beginning to detail the destruction. a lot still wasn't known. those who had loved ones in the south began frantically searching for information. michael levy knew his brother 0r and 0r�*s wife eynav were at the nova festival. i woke up at — the same morning at 6:34am. i still remember the exact time. i woke up to the noise of sirens and i immediately turned on the tv to try and understand what's going on. and i saw its all over the place. i called my mother, because i saw there are sirens where they live as well and so, i wanted to see — to check on them. she said that they are ok but that or and eynav went to the nova festival and that they all texted her that they are heading back. they got there at 6:20am, about ten minutes before hell started. few minutes after, he texted her again, saying that they are hiding in a bomb shelter next to the road. we found their car the day after — we saw it on one of the newspapers. one of the doors was still open. so, they ran from the car into the bomb shelter to hide. from inside, 0r called my mother, terrified. my mother heard it in his voice and asked him, "0r, what's going on? is everything 0k?" and the only thing he told her was, "mom, you don't want to know what's going on here." and that was the last thing we heard from them. that was 7:39am. about ten minutes after — and i know this now because i had to watch awful videos — a group of terrorists arrived to this bomb shelter and started throwing grenades into it and shooting into it, murdering eynav and 17 other people, and kidnapping 0r, along with three others. 0ur kibbutz is beautiful. the people are amazing. what happened to it? we had — i had no idea that it happened elsewhere. i had no idea about the — about kfar aza or re'im and the party and be'eri. i have friends in all of those places. i have friends who've been murdered. i have friends whose family members are kidnapped. hours after the attacks were launched, the israel defense forces finally started to regain some control. it was a long and bloody process. in nahal oz, gali idan and herfamily were trying to survive inside their safe room. danger was getting closer. hamas gunmen held them captive metres away from maayan�*s body. then, the attackers started to livestream the family's ordeal on gali's own facebook account. eventually, tsachi is dragged away from his wife and children and taken as a hostage to gaza. close by, in kibbutz be'eri, gilad was still hiding, hours after fleeing from the nova festival. it was a very stressful situation. the police also came with a dead body from the party and we had to evacuate it also. he was half dead, half alive. but when we got to the extraction point, he was already deceased. and then, after that, they took me to the hospital with a different ambulance. and all the way, you can see all the carnage, all the death, all the smoke. 18 hours after we went in, idf army got us out. after fearing they would be murdered, naomi, her husband and children finally emerged from their safe room in nahal oz. the way they got us out was with a neighbour who came to our window, yelling our name, telling us that it's him and telling us that he's here with the army outside, "you can get out and open the door for us." we had exactly two, three minutes to pack whatever we could think of at that moment. we remembered to bring my id, but we didn't remember to bring shoes for our kids. we tried to make a list in our head of things that we could need, but half of it, we forgot. but i said, "don't worry about it. it's fine _ "we'll be fine. but we're getting out." the army came, got us out. i saw fires everywhere. it was 1:00 in the morning. it was very... it was a scene from a movie. my car and my husband's car and our neighbour's two cars were burnt all the way down to the sheer — only the frame was left. i saw fires everywhere. it was a full—on war zone. michael was trying to piece together information about the fate of his brother or and sister—in—law eynav. he learned that she was killed and he had been kidnapped. i started obsessively calling all the hospitals and asking if they saw someone who matches the description. and there were also a lot of lists of people that were survived, that survived the attack on the nova festival, so i started gathering those and looking for them. and i started calling friends, calling family that might have heard something. but unfortunately, i couldn't — i couldn't find them. and then, i started to work more methodically. with the help of good friends, we started to get any piece of information about this bomb shelter. at first, we wanted to understand where it was because there are quite a few. and so, i got a video of them inside, and then, i saw a painting on the wall — of the outside wall of the bomb shelter and we contacted the person who painted it to make sure there is only one painting like this in the same area. and then, i spoke to survivors from this shelter and it took us a few days to pick up all the pieces and understand what happened. at the time, we didn't know anything for sure. then, afterfour days, they told us about eynav. and after eight days, they told us about or was kidnapped. the israeli security cabinet declared that a state of war had officially begun on the morning of the 7th. the scale of what had happened was becoming clear. buses took us to a nearby army base, about 20 minutes away. i have to say that when they took us, it was almost 2:30 at night, so very dark, and i saw tanks and police blockades, barricades. i saw fires. i saw dead bodies. when we got past all of those barricades and into the army base and i was finally able to see my neighbours and my friends, i saw one neighbour, who was just there, crying, and she said, "they shot my daughter. my daughter's dead." i — she's 18. she was 18. they shot her in the head and they kidnapped her father. and everyone there in that army base at 3:00 in the morning is reunited and looking around and saying, "who's here? who's not? "what happened 7 " she's talking about gali, and the story you heard her describe is about maayan�*s murder and tsachi's kidnapping. gali was, and still is, hugely traumatised by what she's been through. when we sat and talked, she told me gently that she was having that conversation, recalling the worst moments of her life in stark detail for tsachi, because she wanted to do anything that might free him. naomi knew how lucky she was that her family had escaped still complete. both of my sons were throwing up. i said, "great, throw up." they were shaking uncontrollably. ijust could hold them and say, "we're safe. we're safe, we're safe." it took me days to understand what happened because even when the power came back on, i didn't open the news because i had to stay in a very small space in my head to survive, to be a good mum. gilad was also able to tell his loved ones that he'd survived. i couldn't call him for a good couple of hours because if i would have called him, i would probably be dead. and my dad, he also — he lives in africa, in kenya. can't imagine what has been going through his mind. sirens wail what happened after our interview shows you how tense things still were two days on, on october 9. explosions there's a huge barrage going on overhead just at the moment. we have taken cover. this is...it�*s actually a memorial building. you can see we're all here in the... there's nick. he's got a camera. yeah, we're going to... we're going to move. get down, get down. maayan�*s family held her funeral without her father, tsachi. gali asked us to be there and to share the story of their pain. i left everything behind on october 7 — myjob, my day—to—day routine, even my time with my family — and i started to work on this. i have one mission in life now, and it's — ..and it's to bring or and the rest of the hostages back. michael is still doing everything he can to get his brother released. on november 2a, some hostages were freed every day for a week but michael's brother was never going to be among them because the agreement was that the israelis released would only be women and children. i mean, as a father, seeing children and mothers and grandmothers being released is amazing. as you said, some of those families i know personally and they became my family. i was happy with them when their loved ones were released and i was sad for them when they weren't released. but, yes, you can't deny that the feeling is incomplete and the fact that or and the rest of the hostages are still there isn't easy for us. and i'll do everything in my power to get him back, whatever it takes — him and the rest of the hostages. hello there. arrived but help to wash some of it away. because the rain was heavy and quite persistent in places, we have also seen some localised flooding. fortunately the start of the weekend was wild, blue sky and sunshine. it is likely it will continue for the second half of the weekend. rain easing away from the far northeast, little ridge of high pressure building and if we trap the isobars back to the north—west, those will be responsible for driving in a few scattered showers along west facing close and some of these will push further inland. not a bad day. dry with sunny spells and a few isolated showers and a little bit milder particularly in scotland than we have seen of late, even to 11 degrees. there is certainly going to be more rain in the forecast as we look through the week ahead. more wet weather to come. we take a look at sunday into monday and a little more detail. this weather front is going to introduce more in the way of cloud to begin with. we will be chasing cloud around on monday. an area of low pressure into the north—west driving a few scattered showers in northern ireland, north—west scotland, snow to higher ground but it will be to the tops of the mountains, rain at lower levels. looking up six or seven degrees in scotland, highest value is eight to 10 celsius. moving out of monday into tuesday, not a bad start. this ridge of high pressure keeps things quiet but we will need to keep a check on the timing of this weather front. at the moment it is likely to bring some rain into southwest england and south wales as we go through the day, by the end of the afternoon pushing along general coast up into the midlands and turning increasingly windy with it. ahead of it, drier, brighter and still pleasantly mild, 7 to 11 degrees. now, as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, it is going to get warmer still. this weather front continues to be the dividing line between the cooler air in scotland. a little less cold than it has been, nevertheless, but this incredibly mild air to the south. and with that southwesterly flow, we could see temperatures peaking into the mid—teens by the middle part of the week. a lot of clouds go with that on wednesday. and bits and pieces of rain, some poor visibility on exposed west coasts as well. with that southwesterly flow, misty and murky, 7 to 11; degrees, though. so a0 degrees way above where we should be at this time of year. moving out of wednesday into thursday, turning increasingly windier and wetter, we could see more prolonged spells of rain on thursday as we see this weather front pushing in from the west. so we'll keep you updated on the development of that. 8 to 11; degrees the high. looking further ahead, the computer models are really disagreeing with the weather story. some computer models want to keep the low pressure in control, but there is the potential towards next weekend of this little area of high pressure building and quietening things downjust a touch. so if you're fed up with the prospect of rain for much of the week ahead, just bear in mind as we head towards next week, fingers crossed. computer models want to keep it just a little bit drier with more sunshine, but not as mild as it has been. take care. live from washington, this is bbc news. animalfeed and rice — gaza residents resort to desperate measures for food as the un warns of a looming famine. a missing six—year—old girl is found dead in a bombed—out car in gaza city, days after her pleas for help drew international attention. and the white house slams donald trump after the former president said he would not protect nato members against a russian attack if they refused to pay more to the alliance. hello, i'm carl nasman. we begin in gaza, where the humanitarian crisis is deepening. residents tell the bbc they are surviving on animal feed and rice as food stocks dwindle. the un says 300,000 people living in the isolated north of gaza are largely cut off from aid. more than half the aid missions to northern gaza were denied access last month. that is according to the un's humanitarian co—ordination agency. the israeli military says it does not limit humanitarian aid sent to gaza and that there is "no starvation" there. the bbc has been speaking to eylon levy, an israeli government spokesman.

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