Elias and his friends then saw a group of children aged between 12 and 14 who had gotten into difficulties in the water. “As we neared the children we saw that they had been swept out to sea and were being pounded by the huge waves,” he told the television. “On the shoreline we saw the mothers watching powerless as their children were drowning in front of them. Yair and I, who were at that point together in the water, tried with all our might to reach the group to try to get them away from the strong waves.”

The conditions worsened, but the Israelis did not give up, Channel 2 said.


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