‘No superior military’: Israelis fear the unknown

With a ground invasion into Gaza imminent, Israelis are grappling with a total breakdown of trust and a collapse of everything they believed in and relied on.

Isabel Kershner

Oct 16, 2023 – 2.00pm

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Israel’s borders with Gaza and Lebanon | On the ninth day after Hamas overran more than 20 Israeli pastoral communities and army bases, killing more than 1300 people and taking 150 hostages back to Gaza, Israel was a country on edge.

Israelis were girding with grim determination for what they widely see as a war of no choice after the attack on October 7 – the deadliest day for Jews in Israel’s 75-year history and, officials say, since the Holocaust.