{"id":7383,"date":"2023-10-07T20:15:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2023-10-16T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T23:02:55","slug":"hell-breaks-loose-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"HELL BREAKS LOOSE IN ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, Hamas has struck a massive and highly coordinated attack on its Israeli neighbour.\u00a0 1,400 Israeli civilians have been killed and over a hundred hostages taken back to Gaza. This horrific event carried out against many innocent Israeli civilians brings back memories of my visit to the area of the attacks several years ago.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/strong>MAP OF GAZA BORDER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Much of the attack and violent fighting was centered on the southern Israeli town of Sderot (top right), just kilometres from the Gaza border.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>MAYOR’S BRIEFING<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our tour group received a briefing from the mayor of Sderot.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>The briefing was given in a indoor children’s playground, hardened against air attack.\u00a0\u00a0His first question to us was, “What are you doing here? This is a war zone!”\u00a0 How prescient!\u00a0 Sderot is just a few kilometres from some of the worst atrocities commited aganist the now infamous rave festival and other outlying kibbutzim (Nir Am and Kfar Aza) near the Gaza border.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>HARDENED INDOOR SDEROT PLAYGROUND\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CLIMBING WALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

The climbing wall shown here is of limited height to allow instructors to pluck children off the wall and into hardened bunkers within seconds in the event of an attack.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>SDEROT FORTIFIED BUS SHELTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ROCKET SHELTER\u00a0 NEAR BUS STAND<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>RESIDENTIAL BOMB SHELTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Because of their proximity to the Gaza border, families have but seconds to\u00a0 gather children into the safety of hardened shelters.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“CANADA HOUSE”,<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0SDEROT COMMUNITY CENTRE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nir Am is a kibbutz on the outskirts of Sderot. At the sound of gunfire, a local heroine alertly opened the local armoury and distributed weapons to a few brave colleagues. They set impromptu ambushes and took out 25 assaillants with no losses thus saving their kibbutz.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the kibbutz of Kfar Aza, a mere 6 kms away, did not fare as well as it was the scene of the worst of the massacres with 40 babies slaughtered.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ISRAELI “IRON DOME” BATTERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Built to defend against conventional rocket attacks from Gaza, the Iron Dome seems to have been rendered technologically useless by multiple attacks from such simple platforms as hang gliders and slow moving drones dropping munitions on the vulnerable\u00a0 tops of tanks much as the Ukranians have deployed against the Russians. On goes the endless military cycle of challenge and response that has flowed down through the ages even in to our modern era.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Terror and violence, much like rust, never sleeps. Pray for peace.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur war, Hamas has struck a massive and highly coordinated attack on its Israeli neighbour.\u00a0 1,400 Israeli civilians have been killed and over a hundred hostages taken back to Gaza. This horrific event … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical","category-people","category-touring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7421,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}