“Rockets, rockets and booms. Well it’s not the first time,” said Weissmann, whose village of 800 inhabitants is used to projectiles aimed by armed Palestinian groups at Israel.
Pistol in hand, he and his wife followed the drill to get into his fortified shelter — something that every home in the area is equipped with, securing the door and window within 15 seconds.
After that, together with his wife, they heard machine gun fire.
“When we heard this, we know there has been an infiltration of enemy forces,” he said.
A deep sadness came over him, he said, “because as soon as there is gunfire, I know there are deaths”…