My name is May. I'm 23 years old. This is May.

And what's your name?

We met her at breakfast at our hotel in Jaffa,

where she and her sister, R and Renat's two-year-old

twins have been living for the past few weeks. These two sisters, 23 and

45 years old, are from Stérope. If you know that name, it's because

it's a small Israeli city less than a mile from Gaza, and because of its proximity

to the Strip, the city has long been a target of Hamas's rocket attacks.

I've been scared from the rockets and everything since I was a child.

This is why I moved out of the country.

Which is why May says she left her hometown. I moved out of the country.

Which is why May says she left her hometown

to go across the world to study in Budapest.

For me, I left the city and the country

because I've been scared about it growing up with rockets,

hearing the sirens and the explosions and stuff and for example when I go to sleep I make sure that like the ground is clear

to go the path to the shelter to go there to make sure everything is clear because we

have only like 10 seconds to get to the shelter.

But for the rest of Rinnat and May's family, well they love Sterro, and they could never

imagine leaving. But for them it's different. They are braver than me. I can't live this way, but they like the city and they'll never leave it.

Especially their brother, Kobe.

Kobe, especially he loved the city and he always took care of it and try to make sure that the city will get developed in the proper way he was working on it and he had

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