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50+ civilians killed. Remains of the Sderot police station, following recapture by IDF. The battle of Sderot ( Hebrew: קרב שדרות; Arabic: معركة سديروت) began on 7 October 2023, when Hamas launched a large-scale surprise attack on southern Israel, [4] which was widely condemned as an act of terrorism. [5]
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20th century
The Israeli Negev Brigade had depopulated the area on which Sderot would be built on the 2nd and 13th of May 1948, during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, expelling the 422 Muslim farmers there who cultivated citrus, bananas and cereals from the Palestinian village of Najd.The latter were relocated in Gaza as refugees. Sderot was founded in 1951 as a transit camp for Israeli immigrants, primarily from Kurdistan and Iran. It was originally called Gabim Dorot and housed 80 families. It was later rena...
21st century
From 2001, in the beginning stage of the Second Intifada, the city was a target for rockets from the Gaza Strip. Rocket fire intensified after the Israeli disengagement from Gaza in 2005, with the city sustaining constant rocket fire from Qassam rockets launched by Hamas and Islamic Jihad. The population declined as families left the city in desperation. The city continued to suffer from rocket fire until the Gaza War's end in 2009, which brought an end to regular rocket fire aimed at the cit...
In 2010, after a decline in charitable donations, the municipality revealed that it was on the verge of bankruptcy. In May 2011, the British Ambassador to Israel visited Sderot and met with Mayor David Buskila, who described the suffering of children in both Sderot and Gaza:"Believe me that I feel bad for my children, for the children that live her...
According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), in 2010 the city had a population of 21,900. The national makeup of the city was 94% Jewish, 5.5% other non-Arabs, and Arabsless than 1%. There were 10,600 males and 10,500 females. The population growth rate in 2010 was 0.5%.
In 2008, the average wage for a salaried worker in Sderot was NIS5,261. Hollandia International, founded in 1981, a company that manufactures and exports high-end mattresses, moved its sole manufacturing center to Sderot in the 1990s. After 11 years there, it decided in 2008 to relocate due to rocket attacks that hit the city and the factory. The O...
An unusually high ratio of singers, instrumentalists, composers and poets have come from Sderot. Several popular bands have been formed by musicians who practiced in Sderot's bomb shelters as teenagers. As an immigrant town with high unemployment experiencing a dramatic musical success, as bands blend international sounds with the music of their Mo...
Sderot is accessible by Highway 34and Route 232. The Ashkelon–Beersheba railway, a new railway line which connected Sderot with Tel Aviv and Beersheba, was inaugurated in December 2013. The Sderot railway stationlocated on the outskirts of the city at the southern entrance, was opened on December 24, 2013. It is the first in Israel to be armored ag...
According to CBS, there are 14 schools and 3,578 students in the city. They are spread out as eleven elementary schools and 2,099 elementary school students, and six high schools and 1,479 high school students.[clarification needed] 56.5% of 12th grade students were entitled to a matriculation certificate in 2001. Sapir Academic College and the Hes...
HaReuveni, Immanuel (1999). Lexicon of the Land of Israel (in Hebrew). Yedioth Ahronoth Publishing. ISBN 965-448-413-7.Avi Sasson, ed. (2010). Sderot(in Hebrew). Ariel Publishing and Makom Company.People also ask
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October 7th massacre. As part of a broad surprise attack on more than 20 towns and villages in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, approximately 70 Hamas militants infiltrated Kfar Aza, massacred residents, and left the village in ruins.
Oct 9, 2023 · By evening on Sunday, the estimated death toll hovered around 1,100 people killed in 36 hours — though the number was clouded by the continued fighting and the uncertain fate of many Israelis...
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Many residents tried to hide in safe rooms, but the militants blew up the safe room doors and killed those inside. [37] Israeli president Isaac Herzog in Be'eri, on 15 October 2023. The militants took up to 50 people hostage in a dining room in Be'eri, [38] and kidnapped others, taking them the Gaza Strip. [11]
As of November 2023, the IDF estimated that about 3,000 terrorists invaded southern Israel, with additional waves of Gaza citizens entering through the breached fences later in the day. In total the attackers killed 1,139 people: [f] 695 Israeli civilians (including 38 children), [34] 71 foreign nationals, and 373 members of the security forces .
