A Peek into a Mind

I’ve spent the evening reading through other people’s blogs and news posts. I’ve also tried to find how are we, Israelies, are presented in the world mainstream media, as well as reading Ant-Israeli/Pro-Palestinian blogs. I have seen quite a bit of mis information and lots of lies. But still, it was quite an interesting read.
Since […]

Update 6:43: 2 Soldiers were killed in the operation in Gaza. 6 others were wounded. Picture by Hetzel Yosef of Ynet.
17:10: Just came back from watching the special news broadcast on Israel Channel 2 (The site has video broadcasts in Hebrew but doesn’t like Firefox very much). According to what the experts said on the […]

This time the alarm was closer. It took the kids about 2 seconds to disappear from the street. My parents, Leonardo (our dog) and I went all to the shielded room and waited until we heard the fall (which was in a close neighborhood).
There are sirens now, police and ambulances driving around. The kids are […]

According to this news report, there fighting goes on intensely in Gaza today:
According to reports, 32 Palestinians were killed in heavy exchanges of fire which erupted in the area. Palestinians reported that 12 of the casualties were civilians, including seven children, three women and two unarmed men. More than 60 Palestinians were injured.
Most of […]

Apparently, the COLOR RED I’ve experienced about half an hour ago was the second one in Ashkelon. Around 5am there was a COLOR RED alarm in a more distant part of the city (obviously I’m not going to give exact location…) and 3 rockets hit the city.
One of the rockets fell in an empty field, […]

There are many first times in life. When you reach a certain age they get fewer and fewer. 5 minutes ago all of us in Ashkelon had another brand new first time. The first time of COLOR RED alarm in Ashkelon.
My mother heard it first. I was still sleeping when she rushed into the room […]

Here is a picture of the instruction paper I got. It in Hebrew, so all you non-Hebrew readers can go to the Home Front Command website and read it there, and even watch an instruction video.

I went to get the car from the garage this morning, and then went to do the regular shopping for my parents. In the supermarket I was approached by a young female soldier which handed me a paper with instructions on how to behave in a rockets attack. Only after she gave me the paper […]

Damn, just came to my parent’s for the weekend and in order to put the car in the garage, wasn’t planning to go back into warblogging…
Anyway, the Israeli news sites report there was a big explosion in Gaza. The Air Force been hitting missiles-launching teams around the clock since the morning. Apperantly, every time IDF […]

Ok, we just had a missile hit about 5 minutes from my parent’s house here.
I went out to get the dog inside the house. My father watches TV and didn’t even hear the fall. There is no “Red Color” alarm installed in Ashkelon so there isn’t even a warning before the missiles hit.