Many more were taken into the Gaza Strip as hostages, including 85-year-old Yaffa Adar, last seen being driven off on a golf cart, surrounded by armed terrorists.
Standing in a walkway in the middle of the kibbutz on Wednesday evening, Major General Itai Veruv recalled rushing there to fight alongside civilians and soldiers he collected along the way.
“People from the kibbutz, and some that came here to the kibbutz, in single and small groups, volunteered and organized forces, hour by hour, to try to clean this kibbutz,” said Veruv, commander of the Depth Corps and the IDF Military Colleges.
“We lost a lot of people here, citizens of the kibbutz and a lot of security forces,” he said, the sun setting behind the skeletons of the kibbutz homes. READ MORE
