"We brought the Friday dinner to the shelter": the tense night of the residents of the south
In the shadow of the rocket barrage launched from the direction of the Gaza Strip, many citizens went down to the shelters, some of them equipped themselves with the Friday meal and mattresses.
"There is fear and anxiety, it's scary," shared an Ashkelon resident, "People don't want to stay in their homes."
Dozens of families decided to leave their homes in the settlements surrounding Gaza
Yanir Yagna
05/08/2022
Friday, August 5, 2022, 10:10 p.m. Updated: 10:22 p.m.
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On video: Opening of shelters in Ashdod and Rishon Lezion (photo: Yaniv Khalif, Yanir Yagana and Rishon Lezion Municipality)
The residents of the south went down to the shelters this evening (Friday) and are preparing to spend the night there, in the shadow of the rocket barrage launched from the Gaza Strip, after the IDF attacked as part of Operation "Dawn." "We brought the Friday dinner to the shelter," said Ofra, a resident of Ashkelon. Fear and anxiety, it's scary.
People don't want to stay at home.
The fear of the guards brings the people to the shelters."
The Islamic Jihad sent dozens towards the Gaza Strip, Ashkelon, Ashdod, the Shefala settlements and even towards Bat Yam and Rishon Lezion. Hagai Ezra, a resident of Ashkelon, has been in the shelter with his daughters since noon. "We are under pressure And fear," he shared, "We don't have a medical center, so we came to the shelters."
He stated that he would stay the night with his daughters at the shelter.
"We have a serious fear that they will shoot at us."
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A family in a shelter in Ashkelon, this evening (Photo: Avi Rokah)
A family in a shelter in Ashkelon, this evening (Photo: Avi Rokah)
Residents in many localities in the Gaza Strip have decided to leave their homes.
In Netiv Hatara, over 70 families left the settlement in the last few hours.
In Kibbutz Nir Am, about 50 families, which make up about 30% of the residents, left the kibbutz next to the fence.
The rocket barrage came as a response on the part of the Palestinian Jihad to an extensive attack by the IDF against targets of the terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip, as part of Operation "Dawn". As part of the attack, senior members of the terrorist organization were also killed. Senior arrest of the terrorist organization in Samaria.
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