The girls from the girls high school in Sderot.
Sderot is a town of 35,000. When you listen to this song, try to imagine what it was like - in the early morning hours of October 7th, dozens of well-armed Hamas soldiers entered Sderot and shot everyone they could. Including executing a group of retirees on their way to a fun day at the Dead Sea. All this while Hamas fired thousands of rockets at the city.
The empty field in the clip is where the Sderot police station stood and it was the site of an extremely difficult battle.
October 7th was a Shabbat and the Jewish Holiday of Simchat Torah (Torah Celebration). Only on Sunday did the Israeli forces manage to get control back of the city. It was another day, at least, before all Hamas soldiers were killed.
During this time, these girls hid in their homes and hoped they and their families will come out of it alive. Many of their neighbors didn't.
The Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah will never be the same.
This clip commemorates the victims of the attack of October 7th and celebrates how the girls picked themselves up, and after a few months as refugees they came back to the city and the school reopened.
Even in the most concealed of concealed places, certainly G-d is also found there.
(And G-d says:) I stand with you, even through the hard times that befall you.
