Yoav Sheli and his friends, who all serve in a combat unit, were attending the Nova rave in Re’im while on leave from the army. When the attack started on Saturday morning, Sheli rallied his friends and they ran to Kibbutz Be’eri, in which one of them resided, to participate in the ongoing fighting there. They found a dead Israeli inside an overturned vehicle and retrieved his weapon. In the apartment of their friend from the kibbutz, they changed into IDF uniforms to avoid the risk of friendly fire. The friend took his own weapon with him and they collected other weapons they found in the field. They then established contact with the rapid response team and joined its members while the battle was ongoing.
Together with the rapid response team, they fought intense battles in the kibbutz and killed about 20 terrorists. They managed to take control of a house captured by terrorists and gathered civilians that were in it into a protected room. They then went outside and brought in other people from other houses into the protected them. They took an AK-47 rifle from one of the terrorists they killed,w and a kibbutz member took a position on a rooftop, from where he killed eight more terrorists. Finally, they joined up with the Shaldag fighters in the kibbutz and regained control over the kibbutz.
