In the Israeli town of Sderot, less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, there are remnants and recollections of carnage from Hamas’ ongoing attack.
This assaulted Israeli town of more than 35,000 residents is now deserted — nearly.
Israeli authorities evacuated civilians from Sderot and other areas along the Gaza border after Hamas militants launched an attack Saturday that has killed more than 1,300 people in Israel.
A few survivors have remained behind.
In one Sderot building, its windows shattered by a Hamas rocket, is a Ukrainian immigrant. She cares for an ill Holocaust survivor.
Both are staying behind: one from a country at war, taking care of a survivor of another war, in their adoptive country fighting a new war.
In the same building, there are eight guest workers from China — construction workers — crowded in a room with beds and cooking pots.
One of the laborers, Jiang Hua, says their boss told them there weren’t any vehicles to get them out of the town since the attacks began Saturday.
