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On Israeli Kibbutzim near Gaza, Residents Come Home to an Uneasy Truce
(Washington Post) Carol Morello - For the past month, frontline Israeli communities on the Gaza border such as Nahal Oz and a neighboring kibbutz, Kfar Aza, resembled ghost towns. Noam Stahl, 47, who was born and raised in Kfar Aza, said he worries some may never return to the kibbutz, which got 15 direct hits from Gaza rockets. "People are so tired of living as refugees in their own country," he said. Kfar Aza has hundreds of bomb shelters, from large underground communal ones to small concrete hives placed beside walkways, bus stops and soccer fields. So many rockets have fallen over the years that the shells are used as planters and garden decorations.