(Guardian-UK) Avi Yehudai's house in the Israeli town of Sderot was hit two weeks ago by a Kassam rocket, fired from the Palestinian town of Beit Hanoun, three miles away. His daughter's bedroom was destroyed. Cracks are visible in the walls of his house and its front needs rebuilding. Fortunately, the house was empty when the rocket hit. More than 300 of the rockets have been fired and about 70 have landed in Sderot, including five in Rekefet Street. Tamar Trabelski, a teacher and mother of four, said: "This street has been hit five times. When it happens it feel like the whole town is exploding. Fixtures fall off the wall and the children start crying....We feel we are very much on the frontline." Mrs. Trabelski sees no parallel between her fears for her children and the fears of a Palestinian mother. "The army is only there [in Beit Hanoun] because they were firing the missiles at us."
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