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Shortly after dawn on Saturday, hundreds of Hamas supporters pushed their way through the barricades between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The heavily armed forces infiltrated numerous Israeli villages along the border and raced through the adjacent desert, where a techno party reached its climax.
Several eyewitnesses have now commented on the bloodiest conflicts in their area in fifty years. The attack by Hamas militias began around 6:30 a.m. local time with a coordinated hail of rockets and simultaneous incursions by motorized paragliders. The rudimentary missiles often struggle to evade Israel’s advanced Iron Dome missile defense system. But with so many rockets fired at the same time, even the ‘Iron Dome’ couldn’t withstand it.
Hamas supporters were looking for civilians
Attackers then drove bulldozers into fortified electricity and cement walls and marched into villages near the border on motorcycles. There, a specific search was made for civilians, the New York Times reports. The residents of Gaz, which is not far from the border with the Gaza Strip, are used to regular rocket fire on their village. But when Amir Tibon (35) took shelter in a bunker on Saturday morning, he knew something was different this time: the sound of the shots.
“The terrorists were first in our neighborhood — then outside our window,” he told the New York Times. “We could hear them talking.” The neighbors tried to warn each other via WhatsApp groups. The militias apparently tried to break into the bunkers.
Bloody massacre performed at festival
Young Israelis rushed into the streets in several places to push back an expected lone gunman. “This happens often.” However, at their front door was not a lone fighter, but a group of militant Hamas supporters, armed with guns and rocket launchers, who had invaded their neighborhood out of nowhere. “We didn’t understand what was happening,” said a resident of the city of Ofakim in southern Israel. Residents describe in disbelief how idyllic streets were transformed overnight into hospitals with gunshot wounds and corpses requiring treatment.
At the same time, thousands of young Israelis and foreign tourists danced at a music festival in the Negev Desert – many of them in colorful T-shirts and festive outfits. But at dawn the cheerful scene turned into the scene of a massacre.
Andrey Peairie, 35, who was at the party, told the New York Times: “There was just smoke, flames and shots. I have a military background, but I’ve never been in a situation like this.”
Israel surprised by Hamas in its sleep
According to information from the Reuters news agency, a targeted deception made the attack on the Israeli army possible. This is amazing because it managed to surprise the most powerful military in the Middle East.
Citing a source close to Hamas, the militia group led Israel to believe it was not seeking another escalation. Israel was led to believe it could contain war-weary Hamas through economic incentives.
Israeli settlement recreated to practice attacks
Meanwhile, militia members were trained and exercised in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas has given Israel the impression that it is not ready to fight,” the source reveals. As one of the most notable elements of its preparations, Hamas recreated an Israeli settlement in the Gaza Strip, where it carried out a military landing and storming, a source close to Hamas said.
“We believed that the fact that they came to work and brought money to Gaza would create a certain amount of peace. We were wrong,” an army spokesman said. “They caught us.”
According to official information, a total of about 700 Israelis have been killed in the attack so far, and about 150 have been taken hostage and taken to the Gaza Strip. As a result of the counterattacks, 413 Palestinians were killed.
Source: Blick
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