Yossi Landau, the southern area commander for ZAKA, a search-and-rescue group, entered one bomb shelter on Route 232. Inside, he stated, he discovered about 20 burned our bodies fused collectively, including, “It was troublesome to separate them.”
Ms. Abud; her boyfriend, Eliya Cohen, 26; her nephew Amit Ben Avida, 19; and his girlfriend, Karin Schwartzman, 20, left the rave collectively after the rocket hearth started.
Mr. Cohen’s aunt, touring in a distinct automotive, referred to as from farther up the street to say her automobile had been shot at. Assuming the gunshots have been coming from Gaza, Ms. Abud and her companions stopped to take refuge within the shelter with the chicken.
“We have been the primary in,” she stated. “Then increasingly folks got here inside.”
Agam Yosefzon, 20; her boyfriend, Itamar Shapira, 22; and three of their associates, all from Misgav within the Galilee, arrived on the shelter round 7:20 a.m. At first, Ms. Yosefzon stated, folks milled about between incoming rocket alerts. “We have been in a great temper,” she stated. “We laughed and linked a bit.”
Aner Shapira, 22, an off-duty soldier from Jerusalem, quickly arrived with three associates and the information that Hamas had infiltrated the border space. He reassured everybody that there was a big military base close by, and that they need to stay calm, unaware that base would additionally fall.
