About 700 Israelis were killed and at least 150 taken hostages by Palestinian militants so far. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Rescuers and security forces gathering in front of an Israeli police station in Sderot city after it was damaged during a battle to dislodge Hamas militants who were stationed inside on Oct 8, 2023.
Bullets whistled overhead and shots resounded all around, said Mr Andrey Peairie, 35, one of the survivors. He described crawling up to the top of a nearby hill to get a better sense of what was happening. Videos circulated of children and grandparents abducted from their homes in Israel and roadsides littered with dead bodies.
But soon after Mr Tibon, 35, took shelter on Saturday with his wife and two young daughters, he knew that there was something different about this attack.“There were terrorists inside the kibbutz, inside our neighbourhood and – at some point – outside our window,” Mr Tibon recalled. Palestinian residents examining a damaged building after Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Oct 8, 2023. PHOTO: NYTIMESSome 21km to the east, deep inside Israeli territory, Ms Meitav Hadad and her brother Itamar had no idea Israel had been invaded.Suddenly, shots rang out in their neighborhood of Ofakim, a small city of 33,000 residents in southern Israel.
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