Beeri was actually paradise for us.

We lost our homes.

Our community was butchered.

Beeri, a kibutz in southern Israel, was one

of the first places targeted by Hamas in

a surprise attack on October 7.

Militants broke in, burned town homes,

captured hostages, and killed 131 people.

Sky News has verified the identities of 118 of them.

We are completely heartbroken, completely.

It's just one of the

many communities targeted that day.

More than 10,000 Palestinians have

died in the ensuing war.

But it started with the attacks on October 7 that

led 1200 Israelis dead and hundreds more still held hostage.

We don't know whether they're dead or alive.

We investigated how the atrocities in Berry unfolded and

spoke to residents and victims family members to help

tell the story of murder, kidnap, and survival.

Berry is about 5 km from the border with Gaza

in southern Israel on October 7, at around 07:00 a.m.

CCTV camera footage shows two Hamas fighters

approaching the front gate of the kibbutz.

They can't get past the metal bars at first, but then,

as a resident drives up to enter, they ambush the car,

killing those inside, and they run into the village.

Around the same time, Amit Man, a 22 year old paramedic,

was running from the safe room in her home to the

local dental clinic, which was used as a first aid post.

During the attack.

We realized she was running to the clinic even though

she was told to stay inside of the safe room.

Despite being at the clinic, she was

in touch with her sisters on their

family WhatsApp group throughout the day.

She sent them a message once she arrived,

as she began treating the wounded, telling them

her Hamas had arrived in town.

Basically, she stayed there from 07:00 a.m.

Until 02:15 p.m.

Amit sent her sisters an audio message

as her masked gunmen entered the clinic.

This footage shows the aftermath of the fighting.

Haviva and Lior wanted Sky News to play

the recording that they shared, but a warning,

it's distressing to listen to:

"Please, make it stop they are here"

her sisters managed to call her back before the line dropped.

That was the moment that I lost hope.

That was the last time that anyone spoke with her.

As Hamas fighters moved through the kibbutz,

militants entered the home of the GATT

family at around 09:30 a.m..

A video posted on social media, verified by Sky

News, shows 68 year old Kineret Gatt in a

brown shirt being led away by gunmen.

Kenneth GaTt's nephew was in Tel Aviv at the time.

When he saw the video circulating

online, he couldn't believe his eyes.

I just sent it to my mother

and said, this is Kineret, right?

And she said, yeah, of course.

And we couldn't believe that what we were seeing

was her, but there was no question about it.

Another clip, taken shortly after shows her body lying with

three others on the ground by the cemetery gate.

She was later confirmed dead.

Eshel, her husband hid and survived.

Other members of the Gatt family are

believed to have been taken hostage.

Carmel Gatt and Yarden Romen Gatt.

Meanwhile, only a few streets away, Sophie Mackie was in

the safe room of her house with her young children.

CCTV footage shows that the Israeli military were

on the scene from approximately 10:00 a.m.

But locked in their safe room.

Sophie and her kids were unaware for several hours.

I just sat there with terrified children, and

I actually understood the time going to die.

At 06:15 p.m.

Israeli military personnel knocked on

the door of Sophie's home.

They weren't able to rescue us at that

time because we were still under fire.

The kibutz was still full of terrorists.

And so we went together with our neighbors

up to their safe room, and we sat

there for hours in complete darkness.

It wasn't until midnight that Sophie

and her family were finally rescued.

After hiding in silence for nearly 20 hours, I

went into the safe room at 06:30 in the

morning, knowing what my world looks like.

And I emerged from it almost 20 hours later.

And my home was destroyed.

There were dead bodies lying everywhere.

I couldn't recognize anything.

The attack left Berry changed forever.

Sophie and her kids survived, but Kineret and Amit

were among 131 people who died in Berry.

Sky News has verified the identities of

118 of them, including Israeli security personnel.

88 were civilians.

Nine were children under the age of 18.

The youngest was a nine month old called Mila Cohen.

24 people were age 70 or older.

The eldest, an 88 year

old woman called Hannah Kritzman.

We've also verified 30 civilians who are

considered missing or being held as hostages.

That's 118 civilians who are in Berry that lost their

lives or are believed to be missing or taken as

hostages and have been identified by Sky News.

Sky News approached the Israeli government and

the Israeli military with our findings.

Both departments declined to comment.

A Hamas representative did not reply to our messages.

The military finally claimed back

control on October the 9th.

Just over one month later, survivors

are contemplating how to move forward.

Of course we want to go back and

rebuild the situation between Israel and Gaza.

We can't go back to the way things were.

That's not even an option.

But time goes by and we

are slowly healing from the trauma.