(Ynet News) Yoav Zitun - Without a shred of intelligence, Col. Benny Aharon, commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, arrived at Nahal Oz and saw a tank on the road. "I said to the crew commander: 'Give me the tank.' I drove to Kibbutz Re'im. I saw Hamas vans on the way and just ran over them. The terrorists threw explosives at the tank, but the tank kept going" until it ran out of fuel. Lt.-Col. Ran Cna'an commands the 450th battalion at the Infantry Corps school. "We went to Re'im. We got off the buses and advanced on foot. An Israeli vehicle approached us. Something wasn't right about it. I realized it was a terrorist and I shot. I opened the trunk and I found a female French tourist who'd been abducted from the party - tied up, but alive." "I carried on to Kissufim. I joined a Golani company commander and a deputy military security coordinator." They began cleansing the kibbutz of terrorists. One of the squad commanders had been shot and was injured. The battalion commander ran to help him and was himself shot. "I had the strength to crawl backward with him. I put tourniquets and bandages on both of us and we carried on fighting."
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