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=Battle of Re’im=

The battle of Re'im (קרב רעים, معركة رعيم) took place on 7 October 2023, when Hamas attacked Israel, initiating the 2023 Israel–Hamas war. At 10:00 am, less than five hours after Hamas attacked, fighting was reported outside of the Re'im Army Base, which is headquarters for the Gaza Division. It was later reported that Hamas took control of the Re'im Army Base and had taken several Israeli soldiers captive. According to one report, all of the soldiers at the base were 'killed or captured'. The base was reportedly the location of IDF drone and surveillance operations. Hamas reportedly posted video of dead Israeli soldiers it had killed at the base. Later in the day, Israeli Defense Forces regained control of the military base.

Attack
At 7:39 AM a squad of dozens of Hamas militants raided the moshav in the morning. Security camera footage shows them arriving in a van, and entering the moshav through a side gate because the main gate was locked. On the footage two young women were seen running out of the gate and sheltering behind a car as they are shot at by a militant. They are subsequently saved by IDF soldiers. One of them appears to be limping.

After entering the moshav the militants killed four people and later an additional three men. Included in the dead were an 18-year-old man, a man in his home and another man walking his dog.

Moshav Chief Rabbi Ariel Zahavi heard about the raid while on holiday in Thailand. He managed the moshav's response remotely. According to Zahavi the moshav's eighteen person protection team, armed with pistols and only one automatic weapon, were unable to defend the moshav against the militants’ Kalashnikovs. The militants were eventually killed by the YAMAM and Sayeret Matkal IDF units. IDF retired Major General Itai Veruv who reenlisted for the war and his Depth Corps, first fought at Yakhini before fighting battles on the road to Sderot, and Be’eri.

Israeli civilians
Seven civilians were killed by militants. One of them was 18-year-old Yehonatan Hajabi, the son of reserve Lieutenant Colonel Nir Hajabi who was on holiday in Baku, Azerbaijan at the time of the attack. On his return to Israel, and before his son's funeral, Hajabi asked to be activated as commander of his battalion the Daniel Brigade saying, "I will find the time to mourn my son – now we have to fight”. He and some of his brigade ensured that his other son and ex-wife, who also lived in Yakhini, were taken to safety.

IDF
Israel border police officer Ravit Assayag was defending the moshav when she was shot and killed by militants on entering a building before her fellow officers. An unnamed IDF major in the Maglan unit, while searching the moshav, encountered and neutralized two militants. He was injured in the fight and was taken to hospital in stable condition.

Hamas
All militants were killed by the IDF by the end of the battle.

Background
Nir Yitzhak is a kibbutz in Israel's northwestern Negev desert, established on 8 December 1949, and named after Palmach commander Yitzhak Sadeh. Affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair youth movement, it supports the "Garin Tzabar" program for non-Israeli Jews serving in the Israel Defense Forces. As of 2021, it had a population of 649. Economically, it co-owns Shahen Agriculture Co., specializing in field crop production, with Kibbutz Kerem Shalom.

On the morning of 7 October 2023, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad organizations launched a surprise attack on Israel. Under cover of rocket fire at Israel, around 3,000 militants infiltrated Israeli communities and military facilities, engaging in gun battles against sparse security forces. The militants murdered 1,080 civilians, killed 55 policemen and 301 soldiers, and kidnapped at least 247 people (of whom 5 were released) to the Gaza Strip, including women and elderly.

The massacre
On 7 October 2023, around 7:00 am, dozens of Hamas militants entered the kibbutz territory and began going from house to house, murdering the residents. During the massacre the militants caused extensive destruction and looted equipment from the houses they broke into.

The kibbutz residents were locked in safe rooms for over 14 hours, without access to water, food or sanitation, while constant shooting continued inside and outside the homes. Vehicles belonging to several families were stolen and apparently used to transport the kidnap victims to the Gaza Strip.

The kibbutz rapid response team fought dozens of infiltrating militants in an attempt to protect the residents. The team's sergeant major and another response team member were killed in the fighting. Another kibbutz resident was killed in fierce combat with the militants.

Four members of the rapid response team are missing and their condition is unknown. Two more kibbutz members, and three guests staying with them, were kidnapped to Gaza, and their fate is unknown. One of the militant squads also penetrated the kibbutz's Chemi Pharm plant, attempting to murder and kidnap workers, and destroying and looting equipment. Thanks to the plant's camera network, workers barricaded themselves in the fortified operations area and were thus saved, even continuing production activities.

LOTAR unit fighters who arrived at the kibbutz engaged in battle and succeeded in killing most of the militants and repelling or capturing the rest.

Biography
Abdallah enlisted in the IDF in 2002, in the 299th Battalion. In 2006, during the Lebanon War, he was the deputy commander of a company. After that, Abdallah was the commanding officer of the battalion. After completing his studies, he was appointed deputy commander of the 33rd Battalion in Karakal. Abdallah later served as a paramilitary officer of the Paran Brigade, commander of the 299th Reserve Battalion and head of the training branch of the Northern Command. In the 300th Brigade, he held several senior positions, such as a brigade operations officer, a brigade safety officer and the deputy commander of the brigade.

On 9 October 2023, Abdallah was killed in the Western Galilee during the exchange of fire with militants who infiltrated from Lebanon. He was married and had three children.