>>He said a few armed residents were attempting to fight off the gunmen, but “no one is helping them, there is no soldier outside… My friends are being killed while fighting for their homes.”<<
>>A pregnant Kibbutz Sufa resident spoke to Channel 12 from a safe room with her two-year-old child and close family members, saying, “They are shooting at our house; they are trying to break down the door of the safe room.”<<
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Residents near Gaza Strip beg for IDF help as they fight off terrorists

Speaking from safe rooms close to the infiltrated Gaza border, locals say there is little military presence in their communities as gunmen freely move house to house