Photo: RELIEF EFFORTS: An Israeli volunteer helps clean up a home in Sderot, Israel, after a Hamas rocket attack on Monday. Bernat Armangue/APFrom Christian Science Monitor:
Only three civilian fatalities to date, but a climate of fear pervades Israel's southern communities.
Nitzan, Israel - When the residents of this neighborhood of prefab bungalows were evacuated by Israel from the Gaza Strip 3-1/2 years ago, they thought they were leaving lives of daily shelling by Palestinian militants behind.
But after Israel initiated its onslaught against Hamas on Dec. 27, this community of 3,000 former Gaza settlers just 15 miles from the border again finds itself in a war zone.
"There's been three years of calm, and suddenly you go back to the same situation," says Michal Nachmani, a former resident of the Gaza settlement of Neve Dekalim. "We don't have any way to protect our kids."
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