Tag: Sderot
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...
US condemns Gaza rockets as ‘unacceptable escalation,’ supports Israel’s self-defense
World leaders condemned the ongoing rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel, while also urging calm amid escalating tensions in Jerusalem.
“We unequivocally condemn rocket attacks from Gaza towards southern and central Israel, including Jerusalem....
Rocket fire from Gaza triggers sirens at end of Israeli Independence Day
Terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired at a rocket at southern Israel on Thursday evening, triggering warning sirens at the end of Yom Ha’azmaut, Israel’s Independence Day.
A statement by the Israel Defense Forces said...
Social workers in Israel’s south get 500 protective vests for rocket barrages
The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews distributed approximately 500 protective vests on Tuesday for social workers and emergency response workers in Negev communities, including Beersheva, Sderot, Netivot and a number of Bedouin communities.
“The...