FACT CHECK · OCTOBER 7
Claim: Locals fighting back kept the Oct 7 toll down
TRUETHE ANSWER
Kibbutz Nir Am: security chief Inbal Rabin-Lieberman's 12-person squad held the gate 3.5 hours until the IDF came. Not one resident was killed.
SOURCE
Kibbutz Nir Am accounts, via Israel21c and Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
en.wikipedia.org
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