{"id":6370,"date":"2018-07-21T09:52:58","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T09:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6370"},"modified":"2018-07-24T17:42:19","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T17:42:19","slug":"sderot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilyreid.com\/?p=6370","title":{"rendered":"SDEROT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcome to Sderot,\u00a0 a western Negev city and former development town in the Southern District of Israel. In 2016 it had a population of 24,016. The city centre of Sderot is about 2 kilometres\u00a0 from the Gaza border. Residents of Sderot live under a 15 second warning of the threat of incoming Katyusha rockets which have landed by the hundreds over the last several weeks.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>ALON DAVIDI, MAYOR OF SDEROT<\/strong><\/p>\n

A somewhat bemused and quizzical Alon Davidi, mayor of Sderot,\u00a0 wondered what our group was doing in what he described as a war zone but was nevertheless grateful for the support.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>APARTMENT ROCKET SHELTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

Each house or apartment in Sderot is required by law to have a hardened shelter.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BURNT CROP LANDS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Incendiary balloons and fire kites have been launched from Gaza to set thousands of acres of\u00a0 Israeli crops alight.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0<\/a>SDEROT BUS SECURITY SHELTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>BUS SECURITY SHELTER<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>IRON DOME ANTI-ROCKET MISSILE BATTERY<\/strong><\/p>\n

Iron Dome\u00a0\u00a0is an Israeli mobile all-weather air defence system.\u00a0<\/sup>\u00a0The system is designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells\u00a0fired from distances of 4 kilometres\u00a0 to 70 kilometres\u00a0 away and whose trajectory would take them to a populated area<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>IRON DOME ANTI-ROCKET MISSILE POD<\/strong><\/p>\n

Business end of the Iron Dome system.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>HARDENED INDOOR PLAYGROUND<\/strong><\/p>\n

The playground was funded by the Jewish National Fund.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>CLIMBING WALL<\/strong><\/p>\n

The climbing wall inside the JNF playground is of limited height so that a child at the top can make it down and into a shelter in less than 15 seconds.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

POSTSCRIPT: Since our visit, an Israeli soldier has been assassinated by a Gaza sniper and the IDF have carried out reprisal raids on Hamas targets in the Strip.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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