The resistance put up by dozens of residents of the small community, with only four M16 assault rifles and some pistols between them, evidently convinced the terrorists to give up and go wreak carnage elsewhere.
Two moshavniks were injured, none were killed, and the terror squads that invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip at 6:30 a.m. on Saturday did not breach Ein Habesor, about seven kilometers (4 miles) from the Gaza Strip.
That Moshav Ein Habesor was able to defend itself was, ironically, thanks to a spate of car thefts that had prompted the expansion of the community’s defense unit from a dozen people to 78. To ambush would-be car thieves, groups patrolled the perimeter fence nightly.
On Saturday morning, Yariv Ganei Levin from the defense unit awoke to what he called “extreme” shelling from Gaza. READ MORE
