In the Hornets’ Nest

Shuja’iyya, Northern Gaza Strip

While nightly news reports talk of IDF gains and increasing control, Hamas is an insidious enemy that’s not easily subdued. On a tense visit to the Shuja’iyya neighborhood, Mishpacha’s reporter meets the IDF soldiers who remain on constant alert, knowing that despite their gains on the ground, the subterranean tunnels keep disgorging Hamas terrorists with murderous intentions.

With death so terrifyingly close, how do they maintain their resolve? 

Seven minutes. That’s how long it took us to get from the IDF staging area in the Gaza Envelope to the front line of the Shuja’iyya terror neighborhood.

Such a paltry distance, such a monstrous gap.