Dear Friends of the Sderot Media Center

As the people around the world celebrate the Passover Festival of Freedom, Sderot and the Western Negev residents live under the threat of continued rocket attacks on the region. In March, Gaza rocket attacks left one Thai worker dead on an Israeli kibbutz and over 70 people seeking treatment from local trauma facilities for shock.

Sderot, Israel: If you heard Color Red siren alerts in Sderot on Wednesday night, October 14, it was not because rockets were being fired from Gaza, as the 19,000 residents of Sderot have had to endure during the past eight years. Instead, the siren alerts were part of a play produced by the , called Children of Qassam Avenue. The play, which incorporates both the serious and comical aspects of Sderot life and features a hilariously entertaining Moroccan grandmother, had the audience both...

Gaza Grad Rocket Strikes Ashkelon School on Saturday Palestinian Rocket Terror Continues Despite Ceasefire. February 28: Palestinian terrorists fired six rockets at southern Israel throughout Saturday. A Grad-type rocket struck an Ashkelon school, causing heavy damage to classrooms in the morning. Although a number of Ashkelon civilians were treated for shock, further injuries were prevented because the school was closed. The Grad rocket tore through the school, after the air raid siren...

Sderot students do not even know if they will be studying safely this year Homefront Command gave us their word that by the first of Sept., all students in the schools, classrooms and hallways, would be protected,” said Sderot Security Officer Judah ben Maman, as he showed Sderot Media Center reporters a school under construction. However, Batia Katar, Chairman of the Sderot Parents Committee, said that is not the reality. “Children can go to school, but I don’t think that...