The Toll

This is a very frank video from Dana, a young woman living in Sderot who described in July her experiences with rockets.

Dana explains how it feels to live with a fifteen-second warning of death-by-rocket for eight years.

I don't expect anyone who doesn't live here to understand what it's like, but I think it's important for people to know the reality of what we are living through. Because it's difficult, and even when it's quiet, I'm still afraid.

I'm afraid of listening to music while I'm in the shower 'cause what happens if won't hear the alarm. And I'm afraid of driving in the car in the kibbutz with the windows closed because what happens if won't hear the alarm. And I'm afraid of my brother and sister being at home because there's nowhere to run if the alarm will go off.

And I just wish we could live a normal life and be happy and enjoy each other's company and I could enjoy my job.

But it's very, very difficult.

Dana recorded this in July 2008. After Hamas kept shooting rockets and mortars at Israeli civilian targets, Dana asked Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) to post her testimony on YouTube.

If you can watch it and remain unmoved, I question your humanity.

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Originally posted By Christopher to For Zion's Sake