12 Rockets Launched at Israel From Gaza Amid Talk of Large-Scale Operation
One rocket landed near a Sderot house and caused extensive damage.
One rocket landed near a Sderot house and caused extensive damage.
The Israel Defense Forces carried out dozens of air and artillery strikes on Gaza, but said it did not intend to escalate violence between Israel and Hamas.
Filmmaker Laura Bialis had always felt a strong connection to Israel and had traveled there many times before, most recently for her 2007 documentary, “Refusnik,” about the persecution of Soviet Jews.
Israel in retaliatory airstrikes targeted what the military called “three terror sites” in Gaza.
Train service between Ashkelon and Sderot in southern Israel was halted due to security reasons.
Paya Amirov described her life as a game of “Russian Roulette”—she can’t know whether the next minute, hour, or day will be quiet or chaotic, with the ever-present possibility of needing to drop everything and run from scorching metal and shrapnel that falls from the sky.