From a Wall Street Journal story by Dion Nissenbaum and Anat Peled headlined “After Attack, Israel Wrestles With Question: How Could This Happen?”:

As explosions rang out and bullets flew over Tamir Erez’s home in Mefalsim near the Gaza Strip border, he said he kept asking himself, “Where is the Israeli military?” He fled town with his children holding their heads down so they couldn’t see the bodies of dead Israelis killed by Palestinian militants.

“It will take a long time for us to recover from this day,” Erez said.