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On Saturday, October 7, at 6:34 a.m., the first "red color" alert sounded in Yeshiva - and after less than 10 seconds, we heard the first interception.
During the day, 13 more "red color" alerts were sounded in Moshav, there were two direct hits on houses and yards, one of the hits was without prior warning, and more destruction caused by shrapnel that hit more than five other houses.
We stayed inside the Mamadim all day, in accordance with the security instructions, while we hear on the news about terrorists in Sderot, and after that terrorists in Bichini, then terrorists in the fields of Yoshibia, and on the road that leads to Moshav.
We sat inside the houses when we hear small arms shots, when we hear stories from survivors Bleeding people at the "Nova" party, who arrived at the houses at the entrance to the moshav. They asked to enter the house and lock up, they stayed outside to complete tourniquets, "there are a lot of terrorists outside - enter the house" they shouted at us.
Abia Levy Tioto Moshav Yasovhiya/courtesy of those photographed
There is no fence around the seat of Yoshibia, those who want can enter from the fields or from road 34, the road of death.
Our houses are completely exposed, most of them don't even have a security guard to hide in. There is also no one to watch over us. Unlike Netivot or Sderot, where there are police stations and fire stations and MDA, we as a Moshav have nothing.
There is a cabot, there is no standby squad.
Our brave cabot Kobi went through Ben Batim in the morning to try to get volunteers to join him in defending the moshav.
Knowing that if there is an encounter with terrorists, they will sacrifice themselves in defense of its occupants.
No weapons, no vests, and a reminder - no fence.
What happened to us since then?
More than half of the moshav's residents left at their own expense.
Some of them went out for a week or a weekend during the breaks that the council budgeted, begging every day to the break center to let us stay another day.
Those who did have seemingly unlimited breaks are the residents of Beit HaGadi, residents of circles and chains - not Yoshibia.
More than half of the moshav's residents are self-employed freelancers, some with clients who lost their lives, hardly receive any financial assistance from the state, are forced to take out loans.
Those who do receive full assistance are the farmers of Beit Gedi and Shachet.
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Shelters in the Gaza Strip, May 10, 2019/Amir Bohbot
After two months, the kindergartens and schools are returned, but the road to the schools goes through the "road of death".
Traveling to the temporary school on the council bus sometimes takes more than 45 minutes, during which the children are vulnerable.
And what about the kindergartens?
They are not protected at all.
In one of the kindergartens, the MMD window was broken, after a few days the matter was taken care of. But still, it is impossible to reach the MMD from the yard in 15 seconds.
What to do?
More children are being brought to Yoshibia's kindergarten, from other communities.
And one shield for each garden.
Is it possible to put 30 children in a pool?
We checked, it's not possible.
What is the benchmark for the support of the state and the Ministry of Defense?
A distance of 7 km from the Strip? Probably not, because there are 9 settlements that are farther than 7 km and still qualify.
What is the benchmark for compensation fund support for businesses beyond 7 km? If you are an architect 8 km from the border, with dead or kidnapped clients, you are not eligible.
If you grow potatoes 13 km from the border, you are eligible.
What is the standard for full protection of kindergartens? According to the High Court of Justice of 2007, a warning time of 15 seconds. What is actually happening? 44 settlements with 15 seconds Inside, who is outside? Moshav Yoshibia. The last settlement in it is 15 seconds and is not included in the government's decisions.
Route 34 is closed between Yad Mordechai and Sderot, May 5, 2019/Reuven Castro
In an experiment by the Home Front Command that took place about a month ago, it took the children 32 seconds to get to the MMD. An imaginary scenario? Unfortunately, not really. This exact scenario has happened twice since the outbreak of the war. The children are in kindergarten, and they have 15 seconds to enter the MMD.
15 seconds that separate life and death.
What about the big ones?
As fate would have it, they were on their way from school to home.
Lucky that there is protection, and that God protects us.
Because right now only he is on our side.
Who is fighting for us?
Who makes our voice heard?
nobody.
The government tells us that funds have been transferred to the council for the seat.
We are still waiting for them to arrive.
Maybe they are stuck at the checkpoint.
Nevertheless, a closed military area.
The head of the council says that he talks about us all the time, but in the meeting with Yossi Shelli and his team, they claimed that this was the first time they heard that Yossibia only had 15 seconds.
The council claims that they understand the specific need, but for more than a month we tried to recruit them to join the High Court, and they did not respond. By the way, we submitted the petition at the end of January 18, through an unprecedented financial mobilization of NIS 200 from each family, and a supplement from the funds of the committees. Again we Alone, abandoned to our fate. Or as they said in a skit yesterday in a wonderful country: "You write down what you say, but in general you draw a bream fish." The
writer is Abia Levi Toito, spokeswoman for the struggle for the safety of her residents.
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