A surprise attack by Hamas on Israel, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish high holiday of Si
, which combined gunmen breaching security barriers with a barrage of rockets fired from Gaza, was launched at dawn on Saturday during the Jewish high holiday of Simchat Torah.
Most fighters crossed through breaches in land security barriers separating Gaza and Israel. But at least one was filmed crossing on a powered parachute, while a motorboat was filmed heading to Zikim, an Israeli coastal town and military base. Israel’s military said at 10am that Palestinian fighters had penetrated at least three military installations around the frontier: the Erez border crossing, the Zikim base and the Gaza division headquarters at Reim.Hamas videos showed fighters running towards a burning building near a high concrete wall with a watchtower and fighters apparently overrunning part of an Israeli military facility and shooting from behind a wall.
Many residents of southern Israeli towns have fortified areas in their homes that function as bomb shelters, and on Saturday they were using them as panic rooms.By mid-morning Israel’s police chief Yaacov Shabtai said forces were engaging gunmen in 21 locations, and at 1.30pm the military said troops were still working to clear communities that had been overrun by gunmen.
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