Reply #1: Sderot protest clogs central Tel Aviv streets [View All]

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Around 200 people from Sderot blocked streets in central Tel Aviv yesterday to protest the government's inability to stop Qassam rocket strikes on their city.

Protesters blocked the Ayalon Highway and the intersection of Arlosoroff Street and Begin Way, just by the Central Train Station. Police showed restraint and allowed the demonstrators to block the roads for a few minutes. They raised banners reading "We are not sitting ducks" and "No security, no shelters, no government" and called for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's resignation.

During the rally, demonstrators sounded sirens and lay down on the street, simulating a rocket attack. Some of them held the remains of Qassams that had exploded.

"The purpose of the protest is to awaken the people from central Israel from their sleep," Daniel Swisa, 50, of Sderot said. "We expect central Israelis to support us. For seven years, we have been bombarded with rockets. Sderot looks like a ghost town."

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