In the afternoon hours of Saturday, October 7, 2023, Sergeant Ofek Russo, a fighter and medic serving in Shayetet 13, and his team arrived at Kibbutz Be’eri. They went from house to house and yard to yard, rescuing trapped residents. As the sole medic in the area, he provided treatment to numerous wounded individuals. When a soldier from the Yahalom unit was severely injured, he immediately rushed to attend to him under fire, managing to request and direct an evacuation, until he was shot and killed. His body shielded the injured soldier he was tending to.