{"id":182834,"date":"2023-10-22T18:33:25","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T18:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=182834"},"modified":"2023-10-22T18:33:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T18:33:25","slug":"inside-deserted-israeli-town-once-home-to-27k-where-hamas-butchered-families-troops-used-bulldozers-to-drive-them-back-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/inside-deserted-israeli-town-once-home-to-27k-where-hamas-butchered-families-troops-used-bulldozers-to-drive-them-back-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside deserted Israeli town once home to 27k where Hamas butchered families & troops used BULLDOZERS to drive them back | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
TENSION stalks Sderot's totally deserted streets, as its buildings are riddled with bullet holes, smashed and burned and the cloying odour of death hovers in the air.<\/p>\n
The entire 27,000-strong population had fled the small Israeli town amid reports that Hamas terrorists are still holed up in the area and waiting to strike again.<\/p>\n
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The silence of these strife-torn streets is punctuated only by the boom of bombs falling in Gaza two miles away and sirens warning of more rocket attacks.<\/p>\n
This is the ghost town of Sderot two weeks after hundreds of Hamas savages roared into town in a fleet of pick-up trucks and motorbikes to deliver death and terror.<\/p>\n
Myself and Sun photographer Doug Seeburg ventured first to a hill on Sderot\u2019s outskirts with a clear view into Gaza across fields and scrub land.<\/p>\n
This was the spot given the bleak nickname, \u201cThe Sderot Cinema\u201d from where we watched Israel\u2019s awful revenge taking shape.<\/p>\n