Some of the worst reports of violence have emerged from the southern town of Sderot, which lies about four kilometres from the Gaza border, where locals are never far from a bomb shelter.
A distraught father broke down in tears after watching harrowing footage of his terrified daughter begging for her life as she was kidnapped from a dance festival by Hamas terrorists.
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