Civilians said they were being held captive by terrorists in their homes and begged the army to send forces to the southern kibbutzim of Nir Oz and Nir Am, along with other communities along the border with the Gaza Strip.
“We are being slaughtered. There is no army. It has been 6 hours,” one kibbutz resident said. “People are begging for their lives.”
“My sister said militants entered her home,” in the southern Kibbutz of Nir Oz, a Tel Aviv resident named Gaia told Haaretz. “I’m unable to reach her.”
“She told me that she and my brother and father were hiding in the shelter,” Gaia added. “She said the [militants] walked out after a few minutes, but I haven’t been able to reach my family since.”
Gaia reported that her brother had texted her that there were many casualties in the kibbutz, but no police or Israeli army forces to be seen.
Her comments echo mounting criticism from Gaza-area residents that hours after the infiltrations took place, there was no sign of Israeli security forces and they felt abandoned.
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai said that the Israeli Defense Force, along with special units, were managing “a number of war zones and all the additional forces that have been launched towards the Gaza Strip.”
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