Hamas Killed Minnesota Native During Terrorist Attack In Israel

A Minnesota native is among the 14 U.S. citizens confirmed to have been killed by Hamas in its Oct. 7 terrorist attack on Israel.

Cindy Flash — originally from St. Paul — and her Israeli husband were attacked in their own home.

"They are breaking down the safe room door," Flash said in her final text to her daughter Keren, 34, according to USA Today. "We need someone to come by the house right now." Keren had been communicating with her parents from a few houses away.

That text was the last anyone had heard from Flash until she was found dead days later. Her husband — Igal Flash, 66, a son of Holocaust survivors — was also killed.

Keren, who survived, lived a few houses down from her parents in a kibbutz in southern Israel near Gaza.

Flash was a vocal advocate of Palestinian rights and even protested previous Israeli military action in Gaza.

"Whenever there was a military operation, (she) would always protest," Keren told CNN.

"She was there protesting all the time so they won’t destroy it – so that people will see what’s happening because you don’t treat human beings like that no matter what their religious belief is and what their ethnicity is."

Flash emigrated to southern Israel from Minnesota several decades ago when she felt to deep desire to live in a kibbutzim, an Israeli system of community, KARE 11 reported.