"Eradicate Hamas": 83-Year-Old Holocaust Survivor After Israel Attacked

"Rockets, rockets and booms. Well it's not the first time," said Yaakov Weissmann, whose village of 800 inhabitants is used to projectiles aimed by armed Palestinian groups at Israel.

Yaakov Weissmann survived the horrors of the Holocaust by hiding with a non-Jewish family in France when he was just four years old during World War II.

Now 83, he survived the October 7 attack in Israel by Hamas gunmen that has drawn comparisons to Nazi atrocities for its brutality.

Yaakov Weissmann's village Netiv Haassara is just 500 metres (1,600 feet) from the border with the Gaza Strip, from where Hamas Islamists under the cover of a hail of missiles, marched into Israel, killing 1,400 people, mostly civilians.