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Marian Lebor

Opinion

Two phone calls

December 31, 2008 14:26
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Two phone calls today:

First, I called my cousin in Beer Sheva. I hadn’t managed to get through to her last night when I first heard about the rockets falling there. She'd just returned home from work, she said, because a GRAD missile had fallen next to her office. “It was absolutely terrifying. I’m still shaking. Now I have some idea of what people in Sderot have been going through on a daily basis over the past few years. There will be a whole generation of traumatized children in Sderot for certain - and everywhere else if these attacks don't stop.”

She said her family is apprehensive, but for now they prefer to stay together at home. She promised they would come to stay with us in Ra’anana, if necessary.

Second, a friend called from London to check that we are all OK. “I don’t know what to say; I’m so horrified by the terrible scenes in Gaza,” he said. Almost as an afterthought he added, “I suppose the rocket attacks must also be horrible.”