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Die Journalistin Judy Lash Balint schreibt in ihrem Blog “Jerusalem Diaries” über eine Reise nach Sderot, das unter regelmäßigen Raketenbeschuss aus dem Gaza-Steifen liegt in einer Reportage:

According to IDF statistics, more than 600 Kassams have been launched against Israel from the Gaza Strip since last September. Several have targeted the Ashkelon industrial area, but it’s Sderot, barely 3 miles away from Beit Hanoun, that has borne the brunt of the onslaught.

Last weekend alone, seventy of the crude arrowhead missiles were launched toward Israel. Four Israelis were wounded and a few buildings were damaged. Every time there’s an incoming Kassam, a warning siren sounds. It’s called ‘Red Dawn’ and provides all of 15 seconds for people to dive next to a wall or under the bed. To say that the citizens of Sderot are on edge would be a severe understatement.

In deutschen Medien liest sich das etwas abstrakter. Aber dafür gibt es da auch ein pasendes Zitat eines Hamas-Sprechers:

“Wir haben beschlossen, Sderot zur Geisterstadt zu machen”, erklärte ein Hamas-Sprecher, der sich Abu Ubeideh nannte.