Palestinian militants from Gaza raided the country on Saturday, killing and abducting hundreds. Survivors have begun to recount the most complex attack on their territory in half a century.
| The thousands of young Israelis had spent the night dancing at an outdoor rave, many clad in tie-dye T-shirts and crop tops.Just after dawn on Saturday, hundreds of Palestinian militants bulldozed their way through the barricades between Gaza and Israel, drove into scores of Israeli towns along the border and sped through the farmland where the rave was reaching its sunrise climax.
The assault, staggering in its scale, prompted a fierce counterattack from Israel that has killed at least 413 Gazans in missile strikes and gunbattles, according to Gazan health officials.Amir Tibon and his neighbours in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a village that stands a few hundred yards from Gaza, have become accustomed to frequent rocket fire from militants.Bomb shelters are installed in every home in the kibbutz, and residents are used to rushing inside them every few weeks.
Itamar Hadad, 22, an off-duty soldier, grabbed his rifle and rushed into the street. Meitav Hadad, 18, a student at a religious seminary, followed him.They expected perhaps a single shooter, the kind of lone-wolf attacker that frequently targets Israeli civilians, Meitav Hadad said. As Israeli security forces began to retake control of the town, two police officers arrived to take Itamar Hadad to a hospital. They heaved him back to the street, flagging down a passing car.After he had failed to return home, Tali Hadad had broken her observance of the Sabbath and borrowed a neighbour’s car to search for her son. Now, she was there to rescue him.
“We said, ‘Listen, we have kids and grandkids in danger,’” Noam Tibon said. “And we just pushed forward.”
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