The situation in Israel is monitored around the clock: The so-called crisis reaction center is located in the basement of the Foreign Office. The officials have to evacuate German citizens from Israel under high pressure. About a place in a state of emergency.
It was 6:30 a.m. local time when Hamas fired rockets into Israel on Saturday. Shortly afterwards, fighters from the Palestinian terrorist organization crossed the border, committed cruel massacres, raped women and abducted more than 150 civilians.
The clock in the crisis response center in Berlin is at 5:30 a.m. The officials on site may have just grabbed a coffee, read a paper, an internal template. In any case, the calm is now over; the officials now need to get an immediate picture of the situation. As always when a crisis breaks out somewhere.