A Tanzanian student tells the BBC how a timetable change stopped him being taken hostage with his friends.
"If I was not on the farm that morning, I would be one of the missing," Ezekiel Kitiku told the BBC from southern Israel.
"That week the new timetable was prepared and my name was mentioned to work on the nightshifts, but Clemence remained on afternoon shifts," Mr Kitiku told the BBC. Mr Mollel was on day shifts at a different farm. Unknown to him, however, Hamas militants had already begun raiding the two kibbutzim where his friends were.
"At the gate of the kibbutz there were so many IDF soldiers. They refused me entry and told me I would have to go back to stay at the farm because it was safer."
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