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'The siren goes off, and we have nowhere to run to'...
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After leaving the Gush Katif community of Netzer Hazani during the 2005 disengagement, Malka Mordechai was sure that she and her family were leaving the days of Kassam rockets and bomb shelters behind them.
"But now the rockets are back," she said, as she sat on the porch of her home Sunday afternoon. "And there isn't a single shelter here to run to." Like many families displaced by disengagement, the Mordechais moved to Nitzan, a caravan-community between Ashdod and Ashkelon, which was specifically built to accommodate Gush Katif residents after their evacuation. And while the small town was built with hundreds of "caravillas," or modest family homes, a handful of schools and other shiny public buildings, not a single safe-room or underground bomb shelter was erected in this community of over 500 former Gush Katif families. Osher Twituo (11 years old and one of the terror victims from Sderot that moved to Ashdod) said. "I have been scared from the alarm in Ashdod more than in Sderot because at Sderot I heard only the words 'Tzeva Adom (red color)' but never heard the sound. It's terrible." Tomorrow everyone is supposed to return from Chanukah vacation but the schools will be closed. All the stores and the Malls close and the citizens are sitting in their houses and waiting for the next alarm, the next sprint to the bomb-shelter, the next rocket - all the while praying for God to save them. With the ongoing Operation Cast Lead unfolding in Gaza, the threat of rocket fire has come to the forefront of southern Israeli resident's lives once again. Many children develop psychological problems with symptoms of vomiting, crying, shaking and irritability. Light and Mercy is orchestrating an event to take children in kindergartens from Sderot and Ashkelon out of the attack zone for a day of fun – to give them a break from the incessant missles that keep them in their houses all day. We are wanting to give them a time to forget the fear that they feel and to give their parents some comfort in knowing that, at least for a while, their children are cared for - that they won’t have to worry about where the children are when the alarm sounds! The amount of this fun day is $48.00 for each child. We hope that we will be able to raise enough money to send everyone to fun-day! This is what little we are able to do for the children of God that are suffering in this time. Now you can help by giving them a chance to relax and a reason for them to smile!!! We also are visiting the wounded in the hospitals and presenting them with special relief bags to help these victims make their stay at the hospitals easier. Will you help us? |
"Israel left Gaza in order to create an opportunity for peace. In return, the Hamas terror organization took control of Gaza and is using its citizens as cover while it deliberately targets Israeli communities and denies any chance for peace.
In response to Saturday's IAF air strikes on Hamas in Gaza, Palestinians fired over 80 rockets and mortar shells at areas throughout the western Negev. In Netivot, 58-year-old Beber Vaknin was killed and five people were wounded - one seriously - when their house was hit by a rocket.
Three days after Operation Cast Lead was launched, Hamas stepped up its attacks on Israel Monday evening. Heavy mortar shell and rocket barrages rained on Ashdod, Ashkelon, Netivot and the western Negev, leaving two people dead and at least nine wounded, with two of the nine sustaining serious to critical injuries.
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