Tag: Sderot
Israel returns Associated Press’ webcam taken down on Gaza border
Israeli Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi moved to return an Associated Press webcam on Tuesday that inspectors had taken down in the southern town of Sderot just hours earlier, his office announced.
“Since the Defense Ministry wishes to examine...
Thousands march for Gaza resettlement amid Hamas rocket fire
Israeli Cabinet ministers and lawmakers called for the reestablishment of a civilian Jewish presence in the Gaza Strip, speaking at an Independence Day march attended by tens of thousands in the border town of Sderot on...
Sderot family grieves, cares for young sisters orphaned on Oct. 7
“In a fleeting moment, our lives turned into misery,” said Ofir Swisa, the brother of Dolev Swisa, who was murdered along with his wife, Odaya, in front of their daughters, Romi, 7, and Lia,...
IAF strikes Gaza launch pads after rockets fired at Israel on Passover
Israeli Air Force fighter jets destroyed two Hamas rocket launchers embedded in a humanitarian zone in southern Gaza, the army said Wednesday, as the war started by the terrorist group entered its 200th day.
The...
Israel’s heroes will ensure victory
In a recent column about the Middle East Forum’s fact-finding mission to Israel in which I participated, I discussed the uniform consensus among Israelis that they must completely and decisively win the war against Hamas for...
240,000 Israelis living in limbo after Oct. 7
Some 240,000 Israelis are refugees after Hamas's savage attack on their communities close to the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7 and Hezbollah's continued rocket strikes from Lebanon.
The Hamas terrorists took the lives of approximately...
A desolate Sderot waits for the rockets to stop
SDEROT, Israel—This city, at its closest barely a half-mile from the Gaza Strip, lies forlorn, its storefronts shuttered and its tens of thousands of residents mostly gone.
An eerie hush, punctuated by the booms of...
First Sderot rocket victim to become IDF officer
Shila Naamat was 20 months old when a Palestinian rocket struck his home in March 2002. Back then, there wasn’t a bomb shelter on every block or an Iron Dome air defense system.
Naamat was...
Sderot flourishing in the crosshairs of Hamas terror
In any other country, Sderot would be just an idyllic, well-maintained small town. But in southwestern Israel, less than a mile from the border with Gaza, it’s all that as well as a place...
In southern Israel, residents embrace resilience and courage in face of rocket fire
At 9 a.m. on Wednesday morning, I got into my car in Gush Etzion, near Jerusalem to head down to communities along the Gaza envelope in order to learn firsthand from residents what they...