Saturday, six in the morning, and we hear a very familiar sound, the sound of a mortar

about to explode.

It's like a whistle.

It's almost like this.

A mere t-bone lives in a community in Israel right near the Gaza border.

Mortars fly overhead once in a while, but the family has a routine for that.

A mere his wife and their two young girls go to reinforce safer in their house and

they wait.

It's scary, but they've gotten used to it.

You wait, sometimes an hour, you pack your bags, and when there is a break a few minutes,

you just shove the kids in the car and you go away from the border toward a more secure

place.

But this time as we were packing, I heard the most chilling noise I've heard in my life.

A automatic gunfire in the distance.

This is Radio Atlantic.

I'm Hannah Rosen.

After the events this weekend, when Hamas launched an attack along the southern border

of Israel, we're bringing you this episode, sharing the story of a mere and his family.

So at first I'm hearing this gunfire from the fields, but then I hear it from the road,

and then I hear it from the neighborhood, and then I hear it outside my window.

Then I hear shouting, and I understand Arabic, I understood exactly what was happening.

Basically I understood that Hamas has infiltrated our keyboards, that there are terrorists outside

...