Who and where is the Man in Fort - Introduction

Hello and welcome to my blog "Man in Fort".

First I will introduce myself, My name is Dov and Im a 22 year old student living in Sderot.

The name of the blog "Man in Fort" is chosen to represent my life as a man living in the most sheltered city in the world right now.

So what's the deal, why is Sderot is the most sheltered city in the world?

Well Sderot is a small town in Israel that is only couple of miles from Gaza.

Since 2001 Sderot is under constant fire of rockets launched from Gaza by terrorist organizations, mainly Hamas.

Living in what can be called in "rocket reality" for over a decade lead to that Sderot citizens men and women, elders and children needed some protection.

 So now we are the home for the world's first sheltered playground, world's first sheltered bus stations, and one of the few sheltered train stations. 

Also our situation of living under the threat of rockets lead to development of now world leading anti-missle system called "Iron dome". 

Unfortunatley even though we have all this protection people are still getting hurt badly, people still suffer from PTSD and children are still afraid to get out of their house not to mention go to the pool or sea in this summer.

And unlike us many other cities are in the line of fire the last few years and they dont have as much shelter as we have.

In June 2014 Hamas decided to escalate the tension and kidnapped and murdered 3 teenagers: Eyal, Gilad and Naftaly may they rest in peace. While the Israeli government and the IDF worked hard to find them and before finding out they were killed and thrown into a hole Hamas and its partners in Gaza decided to escalate the launching of rockets to Sderot and other towns nearby. 

The escalation continued firing more than 20 rockets a day and targeting bigger cities than usually like Beer Sheva./

 Israel offered last thursday 3.7.14 a ceasefire and that quiet will be treated with quiet.

Hamas refused and launched even more rockets at Israel which lead Israel to start operation "Protective Edge".

I hope through this blog to reach out to people around the world to make them understand enough is enough we want to live in peace and quiet. Our problem is only with Hamas, a terrorist organization that officially states he dont recognize Israel's right to exist, that they want to kill Jews and Zionists, and declared a Jihad (holy war) against us. Their methods are rockets, suicide bombers, kidnapping and other acts of violence.

To protect themselves from Israeli response they hide themselves, their bases, storage rooms and weapons inside a crowded civilian population. So they are responsible for violating basic human rights of both Israeli and Palestinian innocent civilians.

So please, join the call to stop terror and stop Hamas!

Dov Trachtman - The Man in Fort