Yesterday, I visited the Southern Israeli town of Sderot. Being perched on the border with Gaza, it’s subjected to a constant barrage of rockets from Hamas and their associates. A few stream-of-consciousness observations and thoughts below – all lifted from my notebook and from conversations with Sderot locals – as well as some photographs and video footage:
1) On our arrival, at just before 10am, we were told that 8 Qassam rockets had already fallen on Sderot that morning. One of these hit a house in the Niot Neviin suburb, Thankfully, the only casualty was the bathroom [see the video footage I shot on the scene, below], although it’s hard to imagine how traumatised the owners must be. They’ll have a thousand grim “what-ifs?” running through their heads.
2) Since the beginning of 2008, over 1,600 rockets and mortars have been fired from Gaza into Israel
3) The rockets wreak terrible psychological damage, particularly on children.
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