Gaza-area high schoolers reach Jerusalem after protest trek against rocket fire

8 November 2018, 6:35 pm

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Some 6,000 high school students from Gaza-area towns and their supporters gather in Jerusalem at the end of a 160-kilometer trek from Sderot to the Knesset to protest continued rocket fire, incendiary balloons, and attempts to cross the border by Hamas and other terror groups in Gaza.

The rocket fire from Gaza began in 2001, during the Second Intifada, and has continued off and on ever since. The high schoolers growing up near Gaza have lived all their lives in its shadow.

The protest trek is being called “apolitical” by its organizers, all of whom are students at the Shaar Hanegev High School in the Shaar Hanegev Regional Council near the Gaza border.