 Armoured Israeli vehicles massed near the border with Gaza and residents of the Hamas hit areas spent the night in shelters on Oct. 10, as Israel said it had reclaimed control of the Gaza border. Israeli strikes pounded the Hamas-ruled enclave with the fiercest air strikes in the 75-year history of its conflict with the Palestinians despite a Hamas threat to execute a captive for each home hit. Israel has vowed to take its mighty revenge since Dunman rampaged through its towns, leaving streets strewn with bodies in by far the deadliest attack in its history. It has called up hundreds of thousands of reservists and placed the Gaza Strip, crowded home to 2.3 million people under a total siege.