Ishai Trabelsi can’t fit his family of seven in one small safe room, with space for only four beds.

“When rockets fall, we don’t sleep,” he said as he stood in the protected space in his Sderot home.

A cheerful Mickey Mouse was painted on the wall and a stuffed tiger was tucked into the corner of one of the beds, but his family is absent.

When the sirens rang across the southern border city this week to warn of incoming rockets launched by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza, Trabelsi, his wife and five children relocated to her parent’s home near Ashdod to get out of the line of fire.

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