According to Israeli media, Rachel Edri used conversation and food to keep the Hamas terrorists off-balance until the Israeli Defence Forces arrived and killed them. A fateful encounterAfter an early-morning air-raid siren, Edri returned from a bomb shelter in her hometown of Ofakim to find a band of Hamas militants in her living room. “I knew that if they are hungry, they are angry,” Edri told ABC News. In order to alert her son that there were five hostage-takers inside her house, Rachel splayed her five fingers across her face. A group of civilians bearing pistols fought back Hamas militants armed with assault riots.

Source: Daily Nation October 19, 2023 11:39 UTC