A “Normal” Day in Israel [VIDEO]
With daily rocket attacks between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, daily life is taking on a new “normal” for now.
FOX’s Leland Vittert has some of the new “normal” along the Israel-Gaza border:
In the United States, you have snow days from school; Here in Israel, rocket days. �And a rocket that came through the concrete roof of a major school here, a high school in Ashkelon, embedded itself down in the ground. �And a bench where students would normally sit, it’s now peppered with shrapnel.
(Air Raid Sirens)�
Okay, we’ve got the sirens going. �We’ve got the sirens going. �We’re gonna keep going. �This area was hit once before. �We’re gonna keep moving, keep coming this way. �We’re getting inside. �This is where Israeli students would be hiding if, of course, they had been in school – today was a rocket day. �We just heard the explosions overhead, and that was really close.
These are the ultimate in citizen soldiers, many of these are engineers or accountants who have now been called up. �They’re using every spare minute they can before the “go” order is given to practice through these fields – maneuvers, how to clear houses inside Gaza, how they’ll move through the streets. �Of course, for many of these soldiers, the waiting is the very worst part. �For the young guys, they’re gung-ho, they want to go in. �For the older soldiers, they know that some of the men they’re with now in these camps won’t come home alive.
On the Israel-Gaza border, Leland Vittert, FOX News.
WATCH the full report from FOX’s Leland Vittert along the Israel-Gaza border:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yni2oMNQiyk