Israelis living in border communities near the Gaza Strip are bracing for a long and hard war with Hamas -- some heeding evacuation calls but others staying put.
"It's the devil that's attacking us," said Gil, a reservist stationed in southern Israel's Sderot, which after years of periodic rocket attacks from the besieged Palestinian territory has become accustomed to the warning blares of sirens.On October 7, Hamas gunmen stormed Sderot and other border communities from across the heavily militarised frontier with Gaza, killing more than 1,400 people, mostly civilians, and taking nearly 200 hostages.
Ravit Naor, a journalist who volunteered to drive Shmailov to safety at a hotel in Eliat, questioned why officials weren't doing more to help."It's volunteers like me who are helping people leave, in our personal cars.Naor decried what she said was a lack of interest or aid from the Israeli government in the south, calling it"far from sufficient".
In front of a municipal building, volunteers dressed in black or khaki military uniforms but without weapons, drank lattes and ate cookies. Israel's police on Monday said they would start arming civilians to speed up future responses to attacks and other crises.
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