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The south of the Hebrew state was hit by numerous rockets on Saturday October 7. The population is called upon in the evening to protect themselves and not move around.
Ashkelon, near the Gaza Strip, is cordoned off by the police, and the inhabitants are cut off on Saturday October 7. Usually rockets are intercepted by air defense, but not this time. In a street, large smoke and flames. A resident spoke to one of his friends on the phone. “He told me that many people around him were kidnapped and taken to Gaza.”he reports.
Police ban traffic
The neighbors are also barricaded in an armored room. Yaniv locked himself with a knife out of fear. “The fact that they came into people’s homes is frightening.” confides the resident. He and his partner spent the day in a bunker, listening to the news on television and distracting their six-month-old baby.
At the city limits, heavily armed police block roads and prohibit traffic. “We’re at war now, I have nothing to tell you“, says a police officer. On the road leading to Gaza, soldiers’ vehicles. The hunt for Palestinians sowing terror in Israel continues into the evening.