Israeli residents near Gaza abandoned by the government
Israeli residents near Gaza are paying the price for the government’s lack of an effective policy on rocket fire from the Strip.
![ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS/GAZA Municipality employees work next to a house that the Israeli military said was hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Beersheba, southern Israel October 17, 2018. REUTERS/Amir Cohen TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1F454D7B10](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2018/10/RTX6FECR.jpg/RTX6FECR.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=IYmLhm9o)
Dozens of rockets were launched this past weekend at localities in Israel’s south, sending tens of thousands of residents to protected spaces and shelters. As a result, this population began to organize, via social networks, a civil protest movement.
Seven months have passed since the campaign of incendiary kites began, destroying agricultural tracts in the Israeli communities adjacent to Gaza. Over the past few months, residents of these communities also have been confronted anew with routine of Code Red sirens, warning them against rockets fired from the Strip. However, it seems that only in recent days have the residents of the south internalized the fact that they are in the midst of a war of attrition and that the Netanyahu right-wing government has no plan of action for this war — except, of course, to make public statements.