# @mattgutmanabc on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPhBLzekjOE
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35385080-mattgutmanabc-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-07T17:10:54.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Matt Gutman (@mattgutmanabc) — https://gondola.cc/mattgutmanabc

## Caption

(Sound up) Because of the tens of thousands of Palestinians civilians killed in Gaza over the past two years by the IDF, because of the starvation and wholesale destruction in Gaza and its entire infrastructure, it's easy to forget that while 10/7 was the bloodiest single day is Israeli history, "October 7th" was really a rolling series of Palestinian attacks that lasted for days afterwards. 

For days, really through that first week, thousands of rockets rained on Israel and Hamas and other terrorists were still running around parts of southern Israel. And for those of us who had spent years reporting on the Middle East it was shocking that Israeli military, even three or four days later, had not gained full supremacy of its own sovereign territory. (Sound up on all these videos) 

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1.  October 9th - Running from rockets  in  Sderot 
2. October 9th - Sderot - we were there as Israeli paratroopers deployed in the town, furtively taking up street corners as rockets chased us off the street (loud and close.) 
3. As we left town, more rockets blowing up a shopping center/industrial park 
4. October 10 - we've been hearing machine gunfire for hours and finally our broadcast on The View was interrupted as everybody in the area was evacuated. Later and Israeli tank rolled by down the main street and ended up killing four gunman. The bodies of terrorists were everywhere in the kibbutzim starting to bloat and blacken
5. Still brining out the dead in Kfar Aza 
6-7. October 11th - pinned down with our team in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon by an absolutely massive barrage of rockets from Gaza. 

#gaza #israel #october7th

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israel, october7th, gaza

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