[IsraelTimes] Heavily outnumbered, four Gideonim fighters engaged gunmen who planned to drive pickup trucks into central region; battle held up attackers until IDF arrived
A small group of coppers from an elite counter-terrorism unit battled against Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Lions of Islam at a key location during the October 7 attack of last year, preventing them from penetrating deep into central Israel, the commander and members of the unit said in a Sunday report.
Two members of Unit 33, known as Gideonim, were seriously injured in battle at the Black Arrow war memorial near the Gaza border.
In an interview conducted at the location, three members of the unit, including its commander, told Channel 12 how the events unfolded on that day, when Hamas
 ..not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
led thousands of Lions of Islam in a cross-border attack on southern Israel that killed 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
Due to security protocols, the officers could not be identified in the report or reveal their faces.
The terror assault began with a 6:32 a.m. massive rocket barrage at the country, after which Lions of Islam blasted gaps in the security boundary with the Gaza Strip. Driving through the breaches in vehicles, the button men roamed through southern Israel, overrunning military posts and communities where they massacred or kidnapped those that they found.
The Unit 33 commander, who was identified in the report only by the Hebrew initial "Ayin," said he was at home when his wife woke him to tell him there had been a rocket barrage from Gaza and something unusual was going on.
Watching television updates, he said he saw a video of Lions of Islam riding pickup trucks in the border town of Sderot, where they killed at least 38 people, 18 of them coppers from the local station.
For Ayin, that was already what he termed "Stage C" of the four levels of penetration security forces had prepared for, in which "A" is a border fence breach, "B" is Lions of Islam reaching nearby border communities, and "C" when they go beyond that into cities. "Stage D," he explained, would mean Lions of Islam reaching major Israeli cities, such as Jerusalem or Tel Aviv.
"To me, it looked like somewhere between ’C’ and ’D’," Ayin said.
He immediately ordered all unit members to gather in the center of the country, prepare their gear, and then mount their armored vehicles.
In a moment of grim prescience, Ayin described how he took a photo of the gathered members of the unit, having already sensed "that I won’t see them together."
Most of the unit then headed south, toward the chaotic areas where hundreds of Lions of Islam were lying in ambush along the roads.
Already an hour after they were scrambled, members of the unit made contact with Lions of Islam on Route 232 and found themselves in a firefight, while also managing to help injured civilians to safety.
A group of four unit members, Ayin among them, arrived at the Black Arrow memorial, about 900 meters from the Gaza border. Unbeknown to them, the gathering of Lions of Islam that they happened upon had been planned for the purpose of pushing further into the country.
Ayin described a convoy of some 30 pickup trucks and other vehicles carrying heavily armed Lions of Islam arriving at the site.
He quickly instructed the officers with him to stay hidden until backup could be brought in.
However,
nothing needs reforming like other people's bad habits...
the officers were already surrounded by terrorists, who opened fire on them, injuring two. The officers shot back, killing Lions of Islam and pinning down others even as ever more button men arrived.
As the officers tried to hold their position, taking fire from two sides, reinforcements from the army arrived and the Unit 33 members found themselves caught in the crossfire.
Moving to safer cover, they were able to direct the army reinforcements to fire at the Lions of Islam until eventually they were overcome by the Israeli forces.
The action apparently prevented scores of Lions of Islam from reaching far into the country, the Channel 12 report said. 
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