Last night on channel 2 news we saw two families.

One family - mother, father and a son and a daughter - has just left its home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. They couldn’t take it any more.

The second family, from the town of Sderot - mother, father and two young sons, kindergarten age, and two teenage daughters - say they have no intention of leaving. This is their home. But they show the strain. The two little ones both have slight speech impediments and one of them stutters. A discussion about psychologists develops among the older family members. the teenage girls are having none of it. Their father suggests that it could be helpful. Apparently the girls have not been impressed so far with their experience of psychologists and what they have to give to alleviate their difficulties.

One of the little boys immitates an attack. “Color Red… Color Red!” he shouts. Then he tells us about the last attack, which caught his mother and himself just at the corner of their block and how they hid in the entrance, behind the pillars.

A few days ago, a friend of a friend took his small children to see their grandparents in Ashkelon during the Hannuka holiday. As they drove along in the town, suddenly loud speakers were screeching all around. They stopped the car and people all around yelled at them to get out and lie down on the ground. As they did so, a missile flew over their heads and blew up nearby.

The Gazan Palestinians have been perpetrating daily war crimes against the civilian inhabitants of Israeli towns and villages in the South of Israel for years. Their weapons have been gradually becoming more powerful and the radius of their hits has been widening all the time. Instead of ceasing when Israel left the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005, these war crimes have been increasing.

These daily attacks on Israeli civilians, that began again about a month or two ago, long before the official end of the ceasefire (mainly used by the Palestinians to improve their weapons), don’t make the international headlines even though they are increasingly deadly and are already targeting bigger and bigger population centers and rapidly creeping towards the center of the country.

The Israeli government is finally taking responsibility and acting against the perpetrator of these war crimes - the Palestinan Hamas government ruling the Gaza Strip.