User:Ayenaee/Yakhini research

Rewrite
On 7 October 2023, dozens of Hamas militants attacked Yakhini, a moshav close to the border fence with the Gaza Strip, as part of a surprise attack on Israel. The militants killed between 4 and 7 civilian members of the moshav. The moshav’s security team were insufficiently armed to prevent the killings.

At least one Israel border police officer was killed during the fight. An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) soldier was wounded while neutralizing 2 militants but reported to be in a stable condition. All militants were killed later in the day by IDF military units.

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 2 young woman 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 4 people and later an additional 3 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 Baku, Azerbaijan. 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
Between 4 and 7  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 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.

My final thoughts on rewrite
I will now keep quite (on this article 😀) and abide by the wisdom of the community and closer. Ayenaee (talk) 03:55, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
 * WP:GNG and WP:NEVENT/WP:N(E): Rewrite’s 9 refs from several sources (excl. NYP) prove notability. 7 deaths cited in 2 refs. The security clip shouldnot be easily set aside since it is a major notible part of the article, reported by multiple media sources worldwide. Some WP:N(E) items are mentioned below (with others).
 * WP:V, WP:RS: All facts including deaths are cited by 9 refs in rewritten article. Refs from various sources in English or with translation on the talk page. RS for name can be debated if article retained.
 * WP:TOOSOON: Sources do exist in the rewritten article so not too soon.
 * WP:CRYSTAL This event has happened and will not evolve in future, so no speculating about the future is involved.
 * WP:DIVERSE Video was reported nationally and international by varied sources.
 * WP:GEOSCOPE: Only effected people in the area, but reported worldwide.
 * WP:CFORK: This an allowed fork because it doesn’t duplicate. It provides more detail on event only covered slightly in parent articles which already have too much to cover.
 * I don’t think delete is required, if the decision is to merge I’ll do the work required.

Article name
Clearly meets def of massacre:
 * Merriam-Webster: The act or an instance of killing a number of usually helpless or unresisting human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty
 * OED: The indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people or (less commonly) animals; carnage, butchery, slaughter in numbers; an instance of this.
 * Wikipedia: An event of killing people who are not engaged in hostilities or are defenseless. It is generally used to describe killing of civilians en masse (in a mass or group) by an armed group