This story is almost unbelievable, how thanks to one second of courage and resourcefulness, the residents of an entire building in Sderot were saved from death on 10/7.

On October 7, around 8 am, a squad of six Hamas terrorists surrounded the joint building at 2 Nahal Ashlim St. with weapons drawn. One of them shot and broke the glass of the lobby window. With extraordinary courage, while the terrorist was walking around the ground floor and the terrified tenants locked themselves in the rooms, one of the residents, Alon Ronan, ran up the stairs to the electrical room on the ninth floor - and cut off the power to the two elevators.

In retrospect, the decision turned out to be fateful. The murderers were probably too lazy to go up the stairs and gave up on the building. One of them only entered the kindergarten apartment, which was empty of its occupants. 

Half an hour later, which seemed like an eternity, during which the terrorists were recorded on the building's security cameras, they left the place. 

From there they went to nearby apartment buildings, murdered a civilian who was hiding in the safe room, shot a worshiper who was leaving a synagogue, and wounded a woman in the courtyard of her house. 

The residents of the building remained besieged in their apartments for three hours, until the security forces searched all the floors.