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This is the terrifying moment a British mum drives through a gun battle as she flees besieged Israel settlement with her family.
Debby Sharon can be seen dodging bullets and speeding past tanks as a fight between the Israel Defense Force and Hamas rages on.
Ms Sharon and her family had been inside a safehouse for more than 36 hours while their village of Yeted, which is just four kilometres from Gaza, came under attack.
Her husband, daughter, son-in-law, autistic son and three grandchildren under the age of 11 huddled together in one room without power as they were forced to listen to Hamas terrorists invade their kibbutz.
Ms Sharon told MailOnline: ‘It was in those hours that I really understood the mentality my English mother had raised us with after having grown up during World War Two and how she taught us to behave in emergencies.’
She said the scene outside of her window ‘looked apocolyptic’.
‘Nothing could have prepared us for this. The idea of “keeping our chin up” and staying positive in the midst of the chaos and uncertainty, I could see it all taking place in those moments.,’ she said.
‘Trying to keep the kids calm, to stop them screaming, to stop them leaving, all this while we are all together in a safe room which was designed to keep us safe from rockets, not from terrorists, so it didn’t even lock from the inside.’
Debby Sharon had been hiding in the safehouse for 36 hours before fleeing
Ms Sharon’s family at the dinner table before the attack
Her family hiding in the safehouse
The war, which has claimed at least 2,100 lives on both sides, is only expected to escalate as Israel remains determined to crush the militant group.
In Israel, at least 1,200 have been killed, while officials in Gaza say 900 people have been killed.
At least 140 Palestinian children have been killed by the Israeli military as they launched an offensive on Gaza over the weekend, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Israeli forces vowed to turn the Gaza Strip into ‘rubble’ following the surprise attack by Hamas on October 7 and have launched retaliatory strikes in over 200 locations.
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