(NBC News) F. Brinley Bruton and Paul Goldman - Anxiety has been running high in Israeli communities near the Gaza fence since March 30, when Palestinians started the "Great March of Return" demonstrations. Smoke from burning fields hung in the air as Adele Raemer, a Bronx native who settled in Israel four decades ago, pointed to where a mortar killed two Kibbutz Nirim residents in the last hours of the 2014 war with Gaza. Nearby sits a heavily fortified kindergarten building that does not have windows facing Gaza. Raemer said, "The force used by the IDF here on the border prevented thousands of Gazans from walking into Israel. Had that happened, there would have been no choice but to kill many, many Gazans infiltrating, preventing them from entering Israeli communities like my own. The IDF are my son, my son-in-law, my husband and me. It's us. I know these people and I trust them."
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