Recap from Sderot Aid Center

 

The Sderot Aid Center started 2025 with a year and three-month-old war. During the war, out of 28,000 Sderot residents, the city was reduced to 3,000 residents who refused to yield to terrorism and leave their homes. Residents were leaving in fear of what had just happened. Most left with only what they had on or could put in their cars.Stewart, the aid center manager, says: “We were determined not to leave, in order to support those still who stayed.”

Our first request for hot meals for soldiers was in November 2023. As for those who stayed in Sderot, we were able to provide hot precooked meals, make food and medicine pickups for them, and supply them with some of the daily necessities we had on hand in the aid center.

“With EVERYTHING closed, we made daily food runs to Netivot, about a twenty-minute drive away. Even that town was being hit by Kassams, but not as many as Sderot. Making those trips was scary. We set up a distribution point, cooked and distributed to residents along with canned goods. During this, Kassams were fired at us and the Iron Dome ripping through the sky to intercept most of the bombs.

When all was said and done, there were still 700 property damage claims.
Our police department was attacked, and twenty of our police who were on duty or called to work that morning were killed. With our officers dead and terrorists holding up in the police department, it was decided to demolish the building with terrorists still inside.

There were seventy victims of the Oct 7 terrorist attack in Sderot.
During the ceasefire we are once again are focusing on the ones who needed our help before this war started: victims of war, injured by Kassams, the single parents, the working poor, and the elderly.