Rocket City

September 9, 2009

Myself and the Jp*st video man hopped a bus from Jerusalem to Ashkelon to Sderot this morning.

This is the city where rockets fell,by the thousands during Operation Cast lead-against Hamas controlled Gaza strip earlier this year.

Two rockets  fell two days ago and were answered with the fear & force of the Israeli airforce.  As we were on the edge, peering past no man’s land into the strip yet another mortar was fired in our direction.

Smoke billowed. Tanks tore up clowds of desert dust. The military surveillance blimp shifted with the breeze

The adreniline, the connectionto life itself coursed through or vains– we raced back towards cover. 25000 people live daily under this threat…