Medics trapped in a clinic tending to the wounded. A father holding a door shut so gunmen can't get in. Two brothers running a freelance rescue operation. Inside the life-and-death struggle during the Hamas assault that set off a major war.
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Before UN peacekeepers abandoned their Kidal base on Tuesday, they made a costly call: with insurgents stationed nearby, they destroyed sensitive equipment to avoid it falling into the wrong hands.
