(Jerusalem Post) Yaakov Lappin - A senior army source from the Artillery Corps provided a chilling account on Sunday of the battle that raged in Sejaiya on July 20, when a Golani infantry force sent to search for tunnels came under a massive attack by Hamas' Shejaia Battalion, made up of 8-900 highly trained armed men. In a coordinated fashion, the gunmen emerged from "the metro under Sejaiya" and launched a massive wave of anti-tank, mortar, sniper and automatic gunfire from buildings surrounding the Golani force. "I saw that enemy cells had come to within 40 meters of our forces." At this stage, the Artillery Corps mapped out the location of enemy forces, and three artillery battalions rained fire on Sejaiya while Hamas continued to blast the soldiers with mortars from all around the neighborhood. After 20 minutes of shelling, silence ensued.
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