Ra’anana, Israel — We were awoken at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday — the Sabbath, as well as the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah — by the all-too-familiar blare of the air-raid siren. Dutifully entering the bomb shelter in our house, we assumed the alert was a mistake, as it sometimes is. Little did we realize our country’s nightmare was only beginning.
Under cover of a massive rocket barrage — more than 2,000 projectiles in less than an hour — Hamas, the genocidal terror group running the Gaza Strip, breached the border wall and dispatched hundreds of fighters to the small Israeli communities near the coastal enclave. Over the course of the next several hours, the highly trained Hamas militants slaughtered more than 800 Israelis, wounded another 2,500, and took more than 100 hostage — almost all of them civilians.
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