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Shooting in Sderot/ Sociopolitical Background

הסוסיתא של הרצל - נער ונערה עם גיטרה

For the past ten years, the city of Sderot has been in the eye of the storm of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Situated a few kilometers from the city of Gaza, the life of Sderot residents has long become insufferable. The barrage of qassam missiles falling upon them like a nightmarish drizzle with no end in sight, intensifies the feelings of helplessness, suffocation and frustration that continues to grow from year to year. A city that once was a source of pride has over the years become a trap of death and despair.

הסוסיתא של הרצל - דרדר

Within this impossible routine, the city residents are forced to get up every morning and go to work in the factories situated in the area which are slowly closing, one by one, or to go out and try to salvage their failing private businesses. The school children, who were born with the qassam missiles and grew up in the shadow of fear, now spray graffiti on the fortifications scattered all over the city as missile shelters. Some of them remain closed in at home, while others go out in defiance of the missiles, and all of them dream of leaving.

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