Barak Shmuel, a 17-year-old American Israeli and survivor of the Hamas attacks, tells Newsmax that he's looking forward to his service in the Israeli military and the violence that happened that day has only motivated him to do more.
" Saturday morning, I was with two friends and we were on our way to work out," Shmuel, who is originally from Colorado, said on Newsmax's "Sunday Report." "We're preparing for the army, actually. And on our way there, we got caught by a rocket attack..we're used to that, you know, so we heard the sirens and we found cover."
He said then he started getting videos "of terrorists running around and I didn't understand what was going on." Shmuel, who said he lost a friend in the initial attack, is in training for the Israel Defense Forces, and wants to do for others what the soldiers "are doing for us."
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