Grad missile attack on Ashkelon - Feb 2009 (Photo: Reuters) SMC also conducts visits for students, ambassadors, journalists, and private people to Sderot, enabling outsiders to view up-close the security situation of Sderot residents. SMC also initiates social advocacy and community projects for Sderot. Examples of past projects include the "Shotetut" photo gallery where Sderot children were given cameras to document life under rocket fire. At the conclusion of the project, a...

The Logistics Section of SIBAT (Foreign Defense Assistance and Defense Export Department of the Israel Ministry of Defense), together with COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories), are responsible for transferring humanitarian aid to Gaza. They handled the transfer of the equipment that arrived on the flotilla ships from Ashdod Port to the Defense Ministry's humanitarian aid base in Zrifin, which now await Hamas permission for transfer into the Gaza Strip. Of the...

Just three days after a man was murdered by a Qassam rocket in southern Israel, UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon visited the Gaza Strip Sunday morning and told the people of Gaza "we stand with you." Ban called for an end to a so-called siege or blockade on the terrorist controlled territory, and one has to ask what siege or blockade Ban is referring to when in 2009 738,576 tons of humanitarian aid was transferred into the Gaza Strip. Can the UN really claim there is a “Gaza...

Over a Year Since Operation Cast Lead: A Summary of Statistics Qassam and Mortar Rocket Statistics *12,000 rockets and mortars have been fired from the Gaza Strip since 2001. * In the year of 2008, over 3, 200 Palestinian rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip, the largest number of rockets fired at Israel (per year) since 2001. * Since Israel's disengagement from the Gaza Strip in August 2005, rocket fire dramatically increased with over 7,000 rockets having been...

Sderot and western Negev residents experienced another week of sporadic rocket fire from northern Gaza as the began its debate on the Goldstone probe into alleged Israeli war crimes, on Wednesday November 4. Two days before the General Assembly debate began, a rocket fired from northern Gaza, triggered the Color Red alarm system in Sderot, sending residents racing to the city’s newly built bomb shelters. The rocket landed in the Sha’ar HaNegev region, about five minutes...