When the “red alert” sounds, people in my community have up to 15 seconds to make it to a shelter or safe room. I live in Kibbutz Beeri, 2.8 miles from the border with Gaza.
We are lucky. People in neighboring communities closer to Gaza have even less time.
For all of us, an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is an existential imperative. Still, I am one of only a few women in the western Negev who has become active in the over ten thousand strong grassroots movement Women Wage Peace. Most residents in our area have sunk into despair, become cynical or tried to bury their heads in the sand.
Why is that?
