Hundreds were saved. But a group of Gazan farmers died in the battle
The red alert sounded through loudspeakers at 6.30am on Saturday October 7th. This was not an unusual event in Nir Am, a kibbutz of 700 people located two kilometres from the fence separating Israel and Gaza. But that morning the alarms kept sounding, again and again. The electricity went off and phone reception suddenly became patchy. In one of the kibbutz’s orchards, a farmworker called Nabil Barawi looked up at the sky and saw rockets arcing overhead.
” Then one of the volunteers “did the simplest thing”, said Peled, that none of them had thought of until that point – he called the police. “And you know what? The police sent a tactical response unit. Three cars, five motorbikes, three vans. They changed the fight.” The reinforcements turned the tide of battle. The Hamas fighters were beaten back. A number were killed. None of them managed to penetrate Nir Am’s defences. Hardly any other communities in the area were as lucky.
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