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October 16, 2023       Share:    

Source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-exodus-turns-sderot-into-a-ghost-town-some-stay-as-a-reminder-of-whats-at-stake/

Most of Sderot's Residents Have Been Evacuated

(Times of Israel) Carrie Keller-Lynn - On Oct. 7, a bus loaded up thirteen Sderot residents for a day trip during the Simhat Torah holiday. It never made it out of the city, instead gunned down by Hamas terrorists. On Sunday, buses evacuated some of the few remaining residents of this Israeli city on the border with Gaza, to ferry them to state-sponsored hotel stays away from the front lines. By Sunday evening, only a tenth of Sderot's 30,000 residents remained in the city. The IDF has already evacuated nearly all 13,000 residents of the 25 agricultural communities within 4 km. (2.5 miles) of Gaza, many of them devastated by massacres.

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