NEW DELHI: As Israel battles its broadest invasion in the past five decades, the citizens continue to hunker down in the bomb shelters amid blaring sirens and blazing gun fires.
Since the onset of the escalation, numerous videos of assaults and atrocities by the Hamas terrorists have been making the rounds of social media.
In one such video, an Israeli journalist couple narrated the ordeal the Jewish citizens have been reeling under.
Hananya Naftali and his wife India Naftali, widely popular on social media, shared a video recalling how they woke up to the explosions of rockets ripping through Tel Aviv.
The duo claimed that had been, off and on, taking refuge in a bomb shelter.
“We heard explosions above our heads. These were rockets meant to hit us, civilians,” said Hananya.
“There is an all-time, unprecedented war that we are seeing right on,” he said in a video, which he posted on X (formerly Twitter).
‘Resembles Holocaust’
“I think I can speak for everyone in Israel that we have never seen such a situation with hostages, graphic images. The first thing that I thought of when I saw some of these images was the Holocaust. I saw images that I wish I could erase from my brain, images of bodies of Israelis butchered, piled up on each other, things that I thought I would never see,” India Naftali told an Israeli news channel, i24News.
“My husband is holding the door of the bomb shelter,” said a woman named Doreen told Israel’s Channel 12, as per NYT.
Panic pounded even those in bomb shelters as they said a “spray of bullets” was being shot at the shelter’s windows.
“Now they’re shooting sprays of bullets at the bomb shelter’s window. Sprays. And my three children are here with me,” she added.
‘Don’t have words’
“I feel so incredibly violated,” 68-year-old Adele Raemer, told news agency AP, from a safe room in the southern kibbutz of Nir Am after discovering that Palestinian militants had smashed her windows while trying to break into her house. “This is so tough for us, I don’t even have the words,” she said.
An Israeli told the NYT they knew one day the terrorists would come inside.
“This was always the nightmare. We told ourselves that one day, the terrorists will come inside here,” said Jehan Berman, a 42-year-old in the small community of Avshalom near Gaza.
It took eight hours, he said, for the Israeli military to arrive and dispel Hamas fighters.
‘Hardest day of my life’
“We are too scared to go out (from the shelter) even for a second to get water or food or use the bathroom because we know they are still fighting out there,” said Janet Cwaigenbaum, a 57-year-old in the southern kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak told news agency AP.
“I’ve lived here for so long that I know what to do within 15 seconds of hearing an alarm. But today was different. It was the hardest day of my life,” she added.
The sudden attacks by Hamas terrorists in the southern and central region of the Jewish state, which came after the end of Sukkot, a weeklong festival for Jews to commemorate the harvest season, have led to unprecedented escalation between the Israeli administration and the terror outfit.
After the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was “at war” and vowed to take “mighty vengeance” against Hamas.
Israeli death toll from the Hamas attack, on the second day, has reached around 500-600.
Since the onset of the escalation, numerous videos of assaults and atrocities by the Hamas terrorists have been making the rounds of social media.
In one such video, an Israeli journalist couple narrated the ordeal the Jewish citizens have been reeling under.
Hananya Naftali and his wife India Naftali, widely popular on social media, shared a video recalling how they woke up to the explosions of rockets ripping through Tel Aviv.
The duo claimed that had been, off and on, taking refuge in a bomb shelter.
“We heard explosions above our heads. These were rockets meant to hit us, civilians,” said Hananya.
“There is an all-time, unprecedented war that we are seeing right on,” he said in a video, which he posted on X (formerly Twitter).
‘Resembles Holocaust’
“I think I can speak for everyone in Israel that we have never seen such a situation with hostages, graphic images. The first thing that I thought of when I saw some of these images was the Holocaust. I saw images that I wish I could erase from my brain, images of bodies of Israelis butchered, piled up on each other, things that I thought I would never see,” India Naftali told an Israeli news channel, i24News.
“My husband is holding the door of the bomb shelter,” said a woman named Doreen told Israel’s Channel 12, as per NYT.
Panic pounded even those in bomb shelters as they said a “spray of bullets” was being shot at the shelter’s windows.
“Now they’re shooting sprays of bullets at the bomb shelter’s window. Sprays. And my three children are here with me,” she added.
‘Don’t have words’
“I feel so incredibly violated,” 68-year-old Adele Raemer, told news agency AP, from a safe room in the southern kibbutz of Nir Am after discovering that Palestinian militants had smashed her windows while trying to break into her house. “This is so tough for us, I don’t even have the words,” she said.
An Israeli told the NYT they knew one day the terrorists would come inside.
“This was always the nightmare. We told ourselves that one day, the terrorists will come inside here,” said Jehan Berman, a 42-year-old in the small community of Avshalom near Gaza.
It took eight hours, he said, for the Israeli military to arrive and dispel Hamas fighters.
‘Hardest day of my life’
“We are too scared to go out (from the shelter) even for a second to get water or food or use the bathroom because we know they are still fighting out there,” said Janet Cwaigenbaum, a 57-year-old in the southern kibbutz of Nir Yitzhak told news agency AP.
“I’ve lived here for so long that I know what to do within 15 seconds of hearing an alarm. But today was different. It was the hardest day of my life,” she added.
The sudden attacks by Hamas terrorists in the southern and central region of the Jewish state, which came after the end of Sukkot, a weeklong festival for Jews to commemorate the harvest season, have led to unprecedented escalation between the Israeli administration and the terror outfit.
After the attack, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was “at war” and vowed to take “mighty vengeance” against Hamas.
Israeli death toll from the Hamas attack, on the second day, has reached around 500-600.
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