New Delhi: While wars expose the evil side of humanity, they also reveal the opposite. All wars are as much about killings, blood, and gore as they are about the inherent qualities of love, compassion, and kindness that bind humanity. Those who defeat the enemy emerge war heroes and those who tend to the victims are also called war heroes.
Two such heroes in the ongoing war between Israel and Palestine are Sabitha and Meera Mohanan from Kerala who are working as caregivers in Israel. Sabitha recounted her horror in a video on X . ‘Israel in India’ called her an “Indian superwoman”.
“Listen to this story of Ms Sabitha, a caregiver from Kerala, as she shares how she and Meera Mohanan saved the Israeli civilians they were taking care of by holding the door handle and preventing the Hamas Terrorists from bursting in and killing them,” the post read.
भारतीय वीरांगनाएं ! 🇮🇳🇮🇱
मूलतः केरला की रहने वाली सबिता जी, जो अभी इजराइल में सेवारत हैं, बता रही हैं कि कैसे इन्होने और मीरा मोहन जी ने मिलकर इसरायली नागरिकों कि जान बचाई। हमास आतंकवादी हमले के दौरान इन वीरांगनाओं ने सेफ हाउस के दरवाजे को खुलने ही नहीं दिया क्योंकि आतंकवादी… pic.twitter.com/3vu9ba4q0d
— Israel in India (@IsraelinIndia) October 17, 2023
Narrating her experience, Sabitha said, “I have been working along the border for three years. We are two caregivers working at home here, taking care of an old lady with the als disease…It was my night duty and I was about to leave when around 6:30 we heard the sirens and ran to a safety room. It was non-stop.”
“Suddenly, the old woman’s daughter told us things were getting out of hand. We didn’t know what to do…she asked to lock the front and back doors. Within a few minutes, we heard the terrorists breaking into our house, shooting, breaking glasses. We were there for half an hour holding onto the door. The terrorists were in the house from almost 7:30…they were trying to open the door from outside but we tried our best to hold on to the door. They hit the door and shot at it,” Sabitha said.
The caregiver added that while the shooting stopped after a while, they heard it again around 1 pm.
“Schmulik – the father of the house – told us that Israel’s army had come to save us. He went out of the house to see how everything was completely destroyed. My emergency bag was taken…We never expected a terrorist attack but we knew missiles would be falling and when it happened, we used to go into the safety rooms. But on that day, there was no time for us to do anything,” she said.
