Israelis in the city of Sderot near Gaza board transported to escape Hamas’ rockets

Israelis in the city of Sderot near Gaza board transported to escape Hamas’ rockets

Residents of the southern Israeli city of Sderot boarded vehicles travelling to different parts of the country on Sunday to avoid the barrage of rockets from the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian attackers of Hamas, who enraged Israel and killed more than 1,300 people seven days earlier, also attacked the United States with rockets. Sderot, a city with about 34,000 inhabitants about a kilometre from the Gaza Strip, was a typical target. Before entering the vehicle, one of the residents, Yossi Edri, told Channel 13 that "the children are injured, they cannot rest at night. The packages left the city earlier in the week as part of a state-funded program that puts them into motels elsewhere to mitigate the brutality. This shot from Sderot will multiply on Sunday. "There is no reason to go back to Sderot", announced Alon Davidi, head of the city hall, on the radio of the Navy. “It's on the cutting edge.