No cease but fire.

Two rockets were sent from Gaza towards Israel yesterday. One of them landed close to a kinder garden.
Today a Grad rocket was fired into the center of Ashkelon. As by a miracle nobody were wounded, but 3 people suffer from shock.

People seem to believe that shock is less serious than physical wounds. This is not right as a wound may heal rather quickly while psychological shock can stay with a person for years.
Shock occurs after a physically or emotionally harrowing experience. It can cause a person to go through the event over and over without being able to stop doing it. If the situation does not improve it can turn into post traumatic stress disorders which prevents the person from living a normal life; not being capable of continuing working and often causing the person to be angry or generally ill tempered.
Many people living in the southern parts of Israel suffer from this kind of psychological chock, some of them being children. In their case the reason for shock does not only belong to the past but is a daily threat. The fear is real and not just something imaginable and as it is constantly present, because the danger is constantly present, it is also much more difficult to deal with.

Elin Elkouby