Following the major attack by Islamic Hamas from the Gaza Strip, the death toll in Israel rose to 900, according to media reports. According to the government press office, around 2,600 people were injured.
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In the completely destroyed Kibbutz Beeri, near the Gaza Strip, with about 1,000 inhabitants, on Monday, the first day of the search, more than 100 bodies recovered, as reported in the media, citing rescue teams. There are fears that there will be more deaths there and some residents have been kidnapped.
Beeri is located about five kilometers from the border with the Gaza Strip and was temporarily in the hands of Hamas fighters over the weekend.
As the Times of Israel reports, dozens of Hamas fighters stormed the kibbutz on Saturday morning. “They walked around Beeri like they owned the place,” said one resident. “They shot indiscriminately, kidnapped whoever they could and burned houses so that the residents had to escape through the windows where the terrorists waited.“It was a “massacre”.
But there is also a lot of criticism in Israel about why the liberation of the site occurred so slowly. Hamas terrorists managed to kill for hours before Israeli soldiers managed to retake the kibbutz.
Amit Man, a 22-year-old paramedic, hid at the Be’eri clinic for six hours with those injured in the attack. His sister Haviva posted screenshots of the hour-long conversation between the two on Facebook on Saturday.
The sister in Be’eri kept asking when she would finally take back the kibbutz. She was late. Her last sign of life was a message around 2pm: “You are here. I don’t think I’ll be able to get out of here. Please be strong if something happens to me.”
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According to the Ministry of Health, at least 687 people were killed and more than 3,800 were injured in Israeli air strikes in response to the major attack on the Gaza Strip. (dpa, teaspoon)