How Fast Can You Run in 10 Seconds?

The Sderot Media Center posts a first-hand account by Noam Debein of the latest missile attacks on Maccabees Street in Sderot, entitled “How Fast Can You Run in 10 Seconds?”

Another teenage boy was crying, speaking on his cell-phone, shivering as he explained to his mother what he’d just been through, and then he was evacuated with his friend standing next to him to another ambulance. They were both treated for shock. . . .

This 57th missile attack landed on ‘Macabees ‘ Street in Sderot, which landed only 10 seconds after the siren. A friend of the boys who was hit by the missile related that they were running home, but didn’t make it there.

People in Sderot have to think twice before they go out somewhere, not knowing if they will be able to take cover in 15 seconds or less, some times with no siren — like the day before, when the residents of Sderot were woken up from at 6:30 am, by missile attack with no siren going off.

At the scene of the attack, people stood around, expressed their feelings, their thoughts…

They did not know what to do first to express their outrage. They discussed wanting to go burn tires, or block roads, not sure what to do, but to do some thing.

They kept repeating that there had been an average of two missile attacks a day during this so-called ‘cease fire’ with no response what so ever. . . .

All this occurred on ‘Maccabee’ Road in Sderot, less than one week after the celebration of Hannukah, when Jews recite ‘Al H’nisim’, the prayer for miracles.

Unfortunately, it’s not Hanukkah every day, even though there are miracles that happen here every single day. These miracles should happen only when Jews take an action — as in the case of the Maccabees. People in Sderot depend on miracles, with a feeling of hopelessness. Not able to protect their own family, they are separated from Israel and the world, where no one is taking action about the fact that Jewish blood is being spilled, and with no government seemingly ready to protect them. . . .

How did Israel get to the situation where mothers are scared and hopeless for the protection of their own children, when people are scared to go out of there homes, out to the playground, to school? . . .

What most people in Israel do not understand is that we all live on Maccabees Street.

The rest is here.

Israeli medics wheel a teenage boy, wounded by a homemade rocket fired by Palestinian militants in the town of Sderot, into hospital in the port city of Ashkelon, Tuesday, Dec, 26 2006.