“It cannot be more dangerous to have our families inside Gaza than next to Gaza,” said Zevulun Kalfa, 61, recalling the bloody assault carried out by some 2,500 terrorists earlier this month that hit his kibbutz and other Israeli communities near the border of the Gaza Strip.
Some 1,400 people, mostly civilians, were killed during the assault, and at least 228 more were abducted into the Strip. Entire families were shot or burnt to death in their homes, and some 260 people were mown down at an outdoor music festival.
Kalfa has fond memories of his years in the former Israeli settlement of Atzmona, just north of Rafah in the southern Strip.
“We would hitchhike to Shejaiya (in Gaza City) without weapons… just to do our shopping or go to the dentist,” said Kalfa. “They would sell us fish.” READ MORE