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Sderot Residents Describe Desperate Dash to Bomb Shelters
(Times of Israel) Residents of the Israeli town of Sderot described Thursday the desperate dash to safety as 180 rockets, fired from Gaza, rained down on Israel. Residents have 15 seconds from the moment the warning siren sounds to get themselves - and their families - into bomb shelters or reinforced rooms in their homes. Sderot resident Etti Kramer told Hadashot TV how she and her husband dashed to get their seven children into their family's reinforced room as they heard explosions around them. "I ran and grabbed the baby. The rest of the children ran but didn't arrive in time. We started to hear explosions and we continued getting the children into the reinforced room. You have to choose which of your children you save. I grabbed the baby and the two-year old and ran to the shelter." Yossi Lok said he had retreated to his reinforced room after the rocket alert siren sounded. "I heard a huge explosion and saw a flash of fire. The neighbor cried out that he'd been hit. I came downstairs and saw him really badly hurt, covered in blood. His home was on fire because his gas canister had been hit." Wave after wave of rocket attacks set off sirens throughout the night in the Hof Ashkelon, Sha'ar Hanegev, Sdot Negev and Eshkol regions outside Gaza, sending thousands of Israelis into bomb shelters, where many bedded down with their families. In addition, on Wednesday there were at least 11 fires in Israel sparked by arson balloons launched from Gaza.