Kibbutz Massacre Survivors Recount Hamas Attack “It was my worst nightmare that terrorist people will go in the kibbutz,” Koren Hazut, a survivor of the Hamas attack on the Nir Oz kibbutz said. “But in my worst nightmares, I never imagined it can be so bad and so cruel.” On Oct. 7, Nir Oz, located two kilometers from the Israel-Gaza border, was the site of a brutal massacre by Hamas assailants. Three survivors tell the New York Times how they lived through it. Video by David Blumenfeld, Carmit Hoomash, Alexandra Eaton, Noah Throop and Natalie Reneau for The New York Times