Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, right, looks on during his visit of a house destroyed by a Kassam rocket last week, in the southern Israeli town of Sderot, Monday, Dec. 17, 2007. (AP Photo/Edi Israel/pool).
Rescue workers stand in a destroyed house in the town of
Israelis wait in a shelter during a rocket alert in the southern Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza Strip, Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2007. Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired more than a dozen homemade rockets at the Israeli border town Wednesday, Israeli army sources said. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
Israelis react on the scene after a rocket fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza, landed in the southern town of Sderot December 13, 2007. REUTERS/Amir Cohen (
A remarkable two-minute video of children under Kassam attack in Sderot (hat tip: Richard Baehr):
Sarah N. Stern, president of the Endowment for Middle East Truth, in an article in The Jewish Press adapted from a recent speech to Congressional staffers:
Is there any empirical evidence to suggest that relinquishing land might buy
some form of peace? Israel Here we are, two and a half years after the immeasurably painful disengagement from
, and what has been the result of that noble sacrifice for peace? Gaza Hardly a day – hardly an eighth of a day to be precise – goes by without Israelis in the town of Sderot being terrorized by the constant barrage of Kassam missiles.
Earlier Scenes from Sderot are here.