A British family with a 10-day-old baby hid in a safe room as Hamas fighters burnt down their house and ransacked their village.
The family of UK-Israeli citizens spent around nine hours in hiding after being awoken to rocket fire at 6am in the community of Nirim, a kilometre from the Gaza border.
The family was finally freed just before 3pm, Nirim time, as Israeli Defence Forces arrived and escorted them to a bomb shelter in the kibbutz, which is home to just a few hundred people.he learnt of his family’s plight when they received a text message saying: “We are stuck. They came in and burnt our house”.
Other British citizens in Israel told how their families were “hiding in bushes” after Hamas terrorists torched their home on a kibbutz in an effort to smoke them out. “Two elderly ladies have been kidnapped as well as teenagers who were attending a rave and were taken hostage.”A man takes a solar panel from a mosque destroyed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip.“Where is the Israeli Defence Force? Hamas are in control, burning and killing,” she said. “Hamas has taken control.
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