“Our residents are very strong, connected to this place and trust the security forces,” says Eyal Brandeis, spokesman of Kibbutz Sufa, a small community south of the Gaza Strip that was the site of the largest attempted Hamas infiltration to date on Thursday morning.
“The army told residents around 4:30 [a.m.] to stay in their homes and not come out,” Brandeis relates. “Those who live on the Gaza border know what this instruction means. We’re so close that we hear the war from our porches.”
Sufa residents are not frightened by the close call, Brandeis says.
“These people are connected to the land of Israel. This is our home, we fight for it every day, with all the problems of living in the periphery in terms of infrastructure and other problems. Now we’re going back to our daily lives. Everyone is going to work and continuing our regular lives.”
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