"We were still hoping they would not come to our safe room door, but they did. And they tried, and tried, and tried, to open", says a survivor Irit Lahav, as she recalls the October 7 attacks and the impact it had on her community at the Nir Oz kibbutz, where 74 of 400 residents are missing or have been taken hostage. The shock attack by the Palestinian militant group on Israel left 1,400 dead and some 240 people were taken hostage, in the worst attack on Israel since its 1948 founding. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES