Hamas militants raid Israeli houses door-to-door armed with rocket-propelled grenade launchers

Hamas militants raid Israeli houses door-to-door armed with rocket launchers.
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When the Awhazov family walked back to their house on Saturday morning after being called away to an air raid shelter they assumed the worst was over.

But shortly afterwards someone rang the doorbell of their home, in the southern Israeli town of Ofakim.

George Awhazov looked at the intercom screen and was confronted by two men in camouflage: one of them tugged at the door handle, the other, with a rocket launcher on his shoulder, looked around cautiously.

“I heard some noise outside and went to the intercom when I heard the doorbell. I looked at it and saw a guy with an RPG (rocket-propelled grenade launcher). The only time I ever saw an RPG was in computer games.”

The 23-year-old, wisely, did not open the door. He had come within a whisker of being kidnapped.

Over a dozen towns and villages in southern Israel were overrun by Hamas fighters on Saturday as they shot residents in the streets and grabbed others to take them to Gaza.

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