Upon hearing the reports of the terrorist incursion on the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, Chief Superintendent Yitzhak Bazuka Shvili, the commander of the Segev Shalom police station, set out to rescue civilians and fellow police officers, including the commander of the Rahat police station. He was driving in an armored vehicle, but in an encounter with terrorists near Re’I’m, an RPG grenade was launched at him and he was killed on the spot. Yitzhak Bazuka Shvili’s daughter, a Border Police fighter, was also present in the Re’im parking lot at the same time, but was unharmed.
Some 270 partiers were murdered in the rave in Re’im. The battles for the communities of the Gaza periphery claimed the lives of more than 50 police and Border Police personnel.
