This was vaguely reminiscent of the terror Japanese tunnel killers, who would emerge from seemingly nowhere, inflicted against our Marines on Iwo Jima. m/r
Hamas tunnel raid kills 5 soldiers in southern Israel | The Times of Israel
bY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF July 29, 2014,
One Palestinian gunman killed in attack on IDF post near Kibbutz Nahal Oz;
IDF death toll rises to 53
… Hamas terrorists emerged from a tunnel inside Israel Monday evening and killed five soldiers, but failed to carry out an abduction.
The attack took place south of Kibbutz Nahal Oz in the vicinity of the Karmi Crossing with the Gaza Strip.
The five soldiers were named by the army as Sgt. Daniel Kedmi, 18, from Tsofim; Sgt. Barkey Ishai Shor, 21, from Jerusalem; Sgt. Sagi Erez, 19, from Kiryat Ata; Sgt. Dor Dery, 18, from Jerusalem; and Sgt. Nadav Raimond, 19, from Shadmot Dvora.
The Hamas squad surfaced 150 meters inside Israel and fired an anti-tank missile at an army position. The barracks, just below the lookout tower, was hit, and four soldiers were mortally wounded. The soldiers in the lookout tower spotted the squad advancing on the position and trying to drag away one of the soldiers who had been hit. They then opened fire, killing at least one of the gunmen. The others fled.
They army said it was looking for the gunmen both on the other end of the tunnel and on Israeli soil, conducting searches to make sure that none of them remains in Israel. ...
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