Ruth Margalit on the Hamas attack on Israel, exactly fifty years after the Yom Kippur War, where a state of war has been declared.
Surreal sights and early reports from around the country began to trickle in: Israeli vehicles had been taken over by Palestinian militants, and were barrelling through southern Israeli cities; ski-masked terrorists were shooting indiscriminately at oncoming cars and into homes in Israeli towns. Several gunmen were seen paragliding across the border, and there were news reports that an Israeli military base had been commandeered by Hamas.
D.F. soldiers are fighting the enemy at all the infiltration sites.” Gallant also approved a wide-scale call-up of military reservists for service. Among them is my nephew, whose mother—my older sister—was just then busy uninstalling Giacomettis from the walls of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, where she works, for safekeeping amid the rocket fire.
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