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Speaker 1: What was your experience like on October seventh.
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Speaker 2: So I got a call on October seventh at seven
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Speaker 2: o three am in the morning from my producer, and
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Speaker 2: she said, something's happening in the south. And normally when
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Speaker 2: something's happening in the South, it's a rocket attack. And
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Speaker 2: we knew that rockets were being fired not only in
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Speaker 2: southern Israel, but also into central Israel, and so we
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Speaker 2: thought this was sort of the status quo of an
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Speaker 2: attack from Gaza launched by Hamas or Islamic Jihad. And
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Speaker 2: when we stopped at one intersection and got out of
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Speaker 2: the car, we could hear gunfire in the distance, and
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Speaker 2: this was the first major sign that something was wrong,
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Speaker 2: something was different, And as we reported throughout the day,
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Speaker 2: that intersection turned into a treoce point and we watched
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Speaker 2: soldiers and civilians wounded by gunfire he worked on in
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Speaker 2: front of us. Some died, others were taken to hospitals
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Speaker 2: in southern Israeli cities, and a war erupted between Israel
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Speaker 2: and Hamad