BBC World Service. Welcome to Assignment.
We're in the fields, camping.
I'm thinking, oh my God, we've created so many great memories,
by the fire, with the guitar and everything.
And six something in the morning, I hear something that I just, like, prayed that it was thunder.
Early morning, October 7th, 2023.
Galia Sofa wakes up in a tent, her two young daughters beside her.
She's just outside the kibbutz she calls home, near the border between Israel and Gaza.
Something's very wrong.
I realise that it's gunshots and it won't stop, it won't stop.
So I'm like, what do I do?
I haven't run this scenario in my head before.
So I take my girls, one in each hand, and I start running.
Could you see anything or could you just don't hear it?
Rockets.
Rockets up and gunfights going on.
It was chaos, you know.
Palestinian militants have carried out an assault unprecedented in its scale in recent years.
This footage is from a party in the desert that was taking place.
We reached the safe room, so...