Many thanks to MC for taking the time, trouble, and not unsubstantial risk, of getting this footage for us so that we may have some notion of what life is like in that Israeli border town.

UPDATE from MC:

Today started early with missile warnings starting in the early hours, the trains have stopped running south of Ashkelon so I had to run my daughter to Ashkelon station, the roads were empty, even more so than Sabbath.

Most of the traffic was military.

Later I went out on my bicycle to collect Video footage for Vlad, we were having alarms almost hourly through the day, finally I went to the Iron Dome site, I was nearly knocked off my bike as the alarm went off yet again; a panicking BMW driver.

I got to the ID site, and the alarm went off again, but no launch, the missiles are about $40,000 and they do not launch unless lives are threatened.

Later, I set out for Ashkelon Station to pick up the daughter but the main roads past Yad Mordechai and the Erez crossing were closed so I had to take the back roads.

I finally got to the station, but the train had been delayed because of the missiles.
As I drove out of Sderot I had seen about 12 to fifteen smoke trails rising up from Gaza city – obviously going to Ashkelon and Ashdod.

There have been fatalities and serious injuries, Hamas does not care about collateral damage, they tell the world that all Israelis are soldiers even the children and pensioners.….
Whilst waiting at the station there were two sirens (they have the traditional air raid wailing siren in Ashkelon.

There in front of me were the missiles, their rocket motors fireflies glowing in the dark, but I fumbled the camera on the ‘phone – sorry
Today is has been stressful, many people are terrified, my daughter reports people on the train terrified and weeping. It is difficult to put across just how bad it can be.

Personally, I tend to rationalize, I faced my first bomb in Singapore as a teenager when the Indonesians bombed the Hongkong and Shanghai bank in Orchard Road in 1966., and I have been bombed in Londonderry, Ryadh and London(11/7) – I tend to be fatalistic about it, If it has my name on it then so be it, I can’t run any more so I just brazen it out.