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The other day, a rocket fired from Gaza hit a house in Beersheva. It was a direct hit; the house was damaged extensively. Luckily, the mother of the family heard the alarm – in her sleep – and quickly woke up and grabbed her three children and got them down into the house’s bomb shelter, closing the door to the shelter just in time.
