![]() ![]() And they're flashing out (ph), stay put, stay home, not to go outside, not to - don't open the windows, etc.ĮSTRIN: And then at the same time, we've had this other front of about 3,000 rockets and counting fired at Israel all day long, also at Jerusalem, at Tel Aviv. They're fighting, like, every once in a while. And here's what he said.ĭORON SHABTI: That's the situation. They had turned off all the lights in the house. He was speaking from his reinforced shelter room. And in the town of Sderot, NPR spoke to a social worker, Doron Shabti (ph). We have heard some pretty astonishing stories - Israelis speaking to Israeli Public Broadcasting, talking about being at an outdoor festival, feeling gunmen by foot and hiding in bushes, militants going door to door, breaking into homes as people are - were holed up in their reinforced safe rooms. And there are still gun battles going on with Israeli forces as Palestinian militants still holed up there. And they infiltrated several Israeli military camps and at least five Israeli communities - residential communities - near Gaza. They drove over land in pickup trucks through Israel's fortified border fence. Heavily armed Palestinian militants in Gaza flew across the border on paragliders. Both Israelis and Palestinians I've been speaking with have been shocked by what has been happening. ![]() And tell us what it's like there now.ĭANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE: Well, you know, this is something that's been unfolding for about 10 hours now and going. NPR's Daniel Estrin joins us now from Tel Aviv. ![]() The surprise attack saw Palestinian fighters enter Israel by land, air and sea with thousands of rockets being fired toward Israel. A Gaza health official says that nearly 200 Palestinians, mostly militants, were killed, and more than 1,600 Palestinians were wounded in Israel's retaliatory strikes. An early morning attack on Israel by Hamas militants from Gaza has left around 70 Israelis dead and hundreds wounded. ![]()
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