Hamas terrorists butcher civilians as stunned Israel suffers ‘9/11’ moment At least 250 men, women and children slaughtered in surprise attack as rockets rain down and hostages are paraded through street Israel was at war on Saturday after Hamas terrorists slaughtered at least 250 civilians and took dozens of hostages to Gaza in a major surprise assault that left the country reeling. Fighting between Israeli troops and Hamas was still raging within Israeli territory by the evening, hours after the Islamist group crossed into the south of the country and moved from house to house gunning down civilians. More rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip towards Israel later in the day after an initial bombardment of 3,000 which sent crowds of Israelis into bomb shelters near the border and in Tel Aviv. Hamas gunmen dragged off dozens of Israeli civilian and military hostages, with some paraded through the streets of Gaza in front of crowds of cheering Palestinians. The naked body of a wom...