By David Spector | New York Post
An Israeli social worker comforted two terrified kids for 12 grueling hours on Oct. 7 as they hid from Hamas terrorists in a tiny closet — inches from their mother’s corpse.
Photojournalist father-of-three Roy Mor Edan, 43, left the family’s home in Kfar Aza around 6:30 am and snapped photos of Hamas paragliders.
Unbeknownst to him, terrorists had entered his home and shot and killed his wife Smadar, 40, in front of their three children.
Mor Edan’s son Michael, 9, phoned his father for help and the father rushed home, picked up his youngest Abigail in his arms and fled with the other two kids in tow.
Hamas was lying in wait outside. They fatally shot Mor Edan, and took Abigail, 4, hostage.
Michael and Amelia, 6, scrambled back inside to their bedroom, where their mother’s dead body lay, and hid in the closet.
Hundreds of terrorists had flooded the kibbutz and police were too overwhelmed to rescue the kids. Volunteer ambulance service United Hatzalah got involved when their distressed aunt posted on Facebook begging for someone to please save her niece and nephew.
Dr. Tamar Shlezinger, a PHD social worker and volunteer who works with United Hatzalah’s psycho-trauma response unit Hosen — Hebrew for resilience — contacted the kids at 9:30 am.
“I’m afraid, please come save us!” Little Amelia begged in the heart-wrenching audio, provided to The Post by the heroic volunteer group.
“My daddy and mommy are dead because they shot them,” the 6-year-old says in the heartbreaking exchange.
Shlezinger assured the children that help was coming, and that she wouldn’t leave them.
