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| Sderot crossing. Photo: Golan Sabag (aurora-israel.co.il) |
Prologue
Sderot
means boulevard
A
beautiful, wide thoroughfare, lined with trees
Boulevard comes
from bulwark
Something
that protects you from danger
Police
protect the polis (city)
The public,
people, and property
“The
police station is the safest place in the city”
A
bulwark against outside threats
Shai is
a municipal police officer, in Sderot, Israel
Shai
starts us off with two rules:
1.
If there is a red
alert (siren) the protected space (shelter) is over there à (danger
still threatens)
2. Do not record, photograph, or film (people are being killed in these scenes we’re about to see)
***
Shabbat
morning, 7th of October, Simchat Torah
These
are the first five minutes
When
there is a siren, all personnel immediately go to the police station
They
need to supplement the on-duty force
6:45
AM
An
officer from the intelligence service heard the siren
He
and others begin to arrive
A
police officer from the station arrives and is shot
Point
blank
Terrorists
are in a truck
They
take an RPG
And
shoot into the top floor of the police station building
Anther
RPG is retrieved from the truck
Terrorists
are fighting with police officers
Police
are positioned on the rooftop
More
terrorists are coming in to help
And
they’re trying to neutralize the police
A
terrorist walks over and shoots the driver again
At point
blank range
To
make sure he’s dead
The
car rolls out of control
Elsewhere
in Sderot… the Swissa family is driving along
The
dad is shot, point blank
The policeman
says to the mom: “follow me to the police station…
…it’s
the safest place in the city”
An
Israeli Arab, Amer Abu Sabila, tries to help
Amer
(who is a Bedouin Arab)
Tells
her “I will drive your car for you”
Terrorists
surround car and kill both Mom and Amer
The
terrorists coordinate the attack very efficiently
And
move together systematically
Police
are still conducting a battle
From
the roof, trying to hold them off
Another
policeman arrives
And
is shot and killed on sight
His
red car drives out of control onto the sidewalk
Before
ramming into a light pole
Body
cam on a different police officer shows
Him approaching
the vehicle
The
two little Swissa girls are cowering scared
The
big sister protecting the little sister
Big
sister says:
“Take
us! Save us!”
“I’m
here with the baby…”
“…save
my sister”
Their
mother lies in the front seat dead, alongside the kind-hearted Bedouin man who tried
to help her.
6:30
pm
Shai
says: “We wanted to take back control…
…of the
police station”
They
manage to save 10 policemen alive
A
miracle
Special
forces came in through the roof
With
firefighters’ equipment
And
took the remaining police from the roof alive
While
the terrorists took over the building
At
this point, they understood
There
were no more policemen alive in the station
The
idea is the importance of life
Before property
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| Site of the Sderot Police Station - Photo: Ilana Westerman |
So they used a Caterpillar D9
To
break down the walls
26
Hamas terrorists were fortified in the police station
10 terrorists
were killed - a dozen+ wounded
50 Israeli civilians were dead in Sderot by the end of the massacre.
500 rockets hit the city.
The two Swissa girls survived and are now supported and cared for by family members.
***
Shai’s
message to us, to take back to our homes and communities in the U.S.
We
are still here, even though we experienced the October 7th disaster
We
will not be broken
We
will not give up
Shai
continued:
Every
single one of you that lives in the United States…
…is
an Israeli ambassador
…we
are all in a battle against fake news
…we
are all fighting on that front”
Am Israel Chai
(The People of Israel Live)
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