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Israelis Cope with Rocket Barrage

(Ha'aretz) Mordechai I. Twersky - Earlier this month more than 200 rockets from Gaza rained down over cities and smaller communities in Israel. "It's very scary to know that your child is exposed to that kind of danger," says Renana Yaakov, as she stood with her 16-month-old son, Yagil, in front of his heavily damaged kindergarten in Kibbutz Nir Oz, which borders Gaza. "We live that kind of danger every day." A 120-millimeter mortar shell landed inches from the kindergarten two hours before Yagil and his classmates were to arrive. The fortified facility now has hundreds of deep, pock-mark-like craters carved into its concrete facade. This week, Yossi Landau, a first responder for ZAKA, a voluntary emergency response team, showed journalists the devastation wrought by an incoming rocket that landed in the middle of Rogavin Street in Ashdod on Sunday, shattering the entire glass facade of a building on one side while piercing the building across the street with hundreds of holes that reached as high as the fifth floor.
2012-03-23 00:00:00
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