Just after sunrise, Yasmin Raanan squatted on a white stool in her cluttered garden, packing soil into one of the potted plants she is trying to nurse back to health. She spends most of her days out here, where there is more light and life than inside the house, its doors still riddled with bullet holes from the day she and her husband spent barricaded in the safe room listening to their neighbors being killed.
Thirty others were dragged away as hostages. Of the 10 who remain in captivity, only three are believed to be alive. The gate is repaired now and topped with new concertina wire. But most wounds are still fresh here - one of the deadliest places on Israel's deadliest day.
As she pulled dead leaves from a limp plant, an armored vehicle trundled by on the lane just outside the fence, emerging dusty from a corridor the Israeli military has cut through the center of the battered Palestinian enclave. A road that used to carry little but Beeri's tractors is now the gateway to war.
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