Leila Molana-Allen:
Just moments after we left Sderot, another gun battle broke out between security forces and Hamas militants.
And even as residents of these embattled border towns make the choice whether to stay or go, facing even more violence to come, the rockets fall without end.
In these Israeli towns just a few miles from the border with Gaza, when the sirens sound, there's less than 15 seconds to take cover before the rockets begin to fall. There are reinforced shelters spread all around, but, often, there just isn't time to get to one.
The rocket bombardments coming from Gaza are so frequent now that Israel's state-of-the-art defense and warning system can't handle them all. Today, many fell with no warning at all.
Just across the border in Gaza, civilians have no shelters at all. And, today, Israel's rage intensified. The Israeli military said it all but destroyed the district of Rimal, an administrative hub for the Hamas government.
And in Khan Yunis, bombs reportedly targeted the house of a Hamas leader. Waves of airstrikes continue to pound the Strip neighborhood by neighborhood and, in the process, razed entire districts to the ground.
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