After over 100 rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip at Israeli civilians over the course of just a few days, Israel struck back with an iron fist. The Israeli Air Force (IAF) blew up the Mercedes of Ahmed al-Jabaari, leader of the Hamas military wing (do they have a NON-military wing?), and mastermind behind the now infamous kidnapping of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit. The IAF also assassinated Yahiya Abiya, head of the Hamas rocket program, and the evil man responsible for most of the...

I visited the southern Israeli city of Sderot, which illuminates the brutality of radical Muslims. This city also embodies the spirit of Israel to resist. The city resembles a small and rural city. The buildings are a little run down with a small population. The first location I visited was a media center, which looked little more than a small apartment. I met the Director of the Media Center named Noam Bedein who is a photojournalist. Sderot had taken the brunt of the bombings from Gaza. As...

Eric Medeiros looking in the distance by some rocket that have been shot at Sderot Sderot, a city in southern Israel just off of the Gaza strip, is an amazing city with an amazing story. The people there are so nice and welcoming, but have to live their lives in fear. Hundreds and hundreds of rockets were fired at Sderot and many people have been killed and injured. Many of the people tell their stories and how this changed their lives. They never know when a rocket is going to land near...

No long showers? No loud music? Constant threat of rocket attack? Welcome to the town of Sderot, Israel. A caterpillar bomb shelter in a Sderot playground. Photos credit: Max Fruchter As one of eight children, I was shocked by the sight before my eyes. The bomb shelter looked like it held only about 25 people. Unfortunately, in most cases there are more than 25 civilians who need shelter here. Yet this isn’t what bothered me the most. The fact that there were at least five other...

Sderot Media Center recently assisted National Public Radio’s Lourdes Garcia-Navarro with a segment on Sderot a year following Operation Cast Lead. Garcia-Navarro interviewed two Sderot high school girls, Rotem Timsit and Lenoy Shushan, who took part in SMC’s Sderot Community Treatment Theater project. Listen to the story: View the photos: Below is the text from the radio segment: December 15, 2009: New figures show that the number of rockets fired from the...