A mother and her children confronted by terrorists in their home in Kibbutz Kfar Azza; a policeman in Sderot lying gravely wounded among the bodies of his murdered colleagues; an elderly couple kidnapped from their home in Kibbutz Nir Oz and dragged into the Hamas tunnels of Gaza's subterranean city.

1,200 were murdered, thousands wounded, and 101 people have been held captive for a whole year. October 7 has scarred the Israeli collective memory as a national calamity.

In this special project marking one year since October 7, Haaretz invites you to watch the testimonies of ten survivors of the Hamas attack as they speak about the day that became a never-ending nightmare.

Journalists are assumed to be silent observers. But how do you cover a massacre while it is taking place, and what happens when you come under fire? How do you edit the news about the death and destruction at your parents' kibbutz? How do you cover the suffering of Gaza's civilians, across enemy lines?

Linda Dayan interviewed nine Haaretz journalists – reporters, editors, photographers – about their experiences on October 7 and its aftermath, offering a unique behind-the-headlines view of the day personal and professional experiences collided, and how Haaretz covered, and continues to cover, this unprecedented, harrowing crisis.