January 15th – Ma’ale Habsor

I was awakened by booms and I could hardly open my right eye.
Tidings of things to come? No, who believes in ‘tidings’. I lay in bed for a while, letting tears flow, letting my eye clean itself, while I waited for the booms to identify themselves. Truth is that I’m not very good at sensing [...]

January 10th, Nir-Oz, update

It’s early morning. I don’t feel like writing. Why not? Cause it’s the same scenario. Why repeat myself? But, I will.
Last evening at 5:00 p.m., we had one Tzeva Adom alert. The boom landed, we exhaled again. Our evening passed, the noises outside continued. There are louder booms, now, new noises and they require analysis [...]

Kibbutz Nir Oz, January 4th update + evening update

First night of ground force phase of Operation Cast Lead. We didn’t need to go into the shelters.