Yossi Landau, the southern area commander for ZAKA, a search-and-rescue group, entered one bomb shelter on Route 232. Inside, he mentioned, 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 fireplace started.
Mr. Cohen’s aunt, touring in a special automotive, referred to as from farther up the highway to say her car 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 chook.
“We have been the primary in,” she mentioned. “Then increasingly more individuals got here inside.”
Agam Yosefzon, 20; her boyfriend, Itamar Shapira, 22; and three of their mates, all from Misgav within the Galilee, arrived on the shelter round 7:20 a.m. At first, Ms. Yosefzon mentioned, individuals milled about between incoming rocket alerts. “We have been in temper,” she mentioned. “We laughed and linked a bit.”
Aner Shapira, 22, an off-duty soldier from Jerusalem, quickly arrived with three mates 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.
Because the sound of gunfire drew nearer, all people crowded into the shelter suffering from trash, wasps’ nests and excrement. Aner Shapira took command, witnesses mentioned, and stood on the entrance.
Quickly after 7:41 a.m., in line with time-stamped texts and survivors’ testimonies, the attackers arrived outdoors the bunker. “We thought possibly they’d go us by and never see us,” Ms. Abud mentioned. “We stored silent.”
Dashcam footage from a close-by car later posted on-line reveals seven gunmen abusing an Arabic-speaking Bedouin man seated on the bottom outdoors the bunker’s entrance at 7:56 a.m. Survivors mentioned the person pleaded with the gunmen to not enter the constructing. The person’s household later recognized him as Osama Abu Eisa and mentioned he had been killed.
The dashcam footage then reveals a gunman tossing a grenade into the shelter because the assailants run for canopy. A younger man flees the shelter, working throughout the highway. The gunmen fireplace at him in a frenzy. Witnesses mentioned he was killed.
