2021 is a bad year for me because we still have the coronavirus. Israel has many problems caused by the coronavirus but on March 10 Hamas ( Terrorist Organization in Gaza) shot a few rockets at Ashdod and Ashkelon and that caused even more problems. Now the IDF has launched a new mission "Guardian of the Walls". The goal of this mission is to destroy buildings and warehouses of Hamas terrorists. We have to learn through zoom again because Hamas can easily shoot a few hundred rockets in a second at Gush Dan and other central regions of Israel like Beer Yaakov.

Fortunately, I live in a quiet city, Ramla. Many religions like Judaism, Islam, and others live here in peace. I don't like this city much because I have lived in Beer Yaakov for 7+ years. Beer Yaakov is a place where I can feel safe no matter what. My close friends live in Beer Yaakov, and now It’s a little harder for me to be with my friends.

In conclusion, I want to say that I love Israel. fast progressing country in the development of socialism and technology. Israel is one of the most powerful countries in the world (ranked 18th out of 200 countries). Israel has won many wars and will continue to win. Israel forever.

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As a lot of people from different countries around the world know, Israel and the Hamas, a terrorist organization in Gaza, are in big conflicts and are participating in a kind of a war.

To begin with, we’re in big disagreements and misunderstandings with the Hamas.  Gaza is an area that was given to the Palestine people, to the Palestinian Authority
in the Oslo Peace Agreement and Hamas has conquered this territory in 2007 and now is placed in Gaza. Hamas want their, the Palestine people's territories back and that comes with more than a thousands of rockets that have been fired at us, Israel since last week.

The Hamas has 50,000 rockets in general and they have already fired more than 3,000 rockets at us. Smartly and luckily, Israel has invented the “Iron Dome”, a mobile air defense system, that works perfectly against Hamas’s rockets, when a rocket is being fired at Israel, the Iron Dome automatically starts to work, and it’s launching a defense rocket that doesn't let Hamas’s rocket to blow and explow Israeli building, breathing people and anything else, which means that our security situation is more than okay but still is hard for the Iron Dome to stop every single rocket from Gaza.

Furthermore, even though they attacked us first, everyone in our society seem to think differently, Palestine people have more social powers than us the Israeli people, and they have been posting lies, incorrect and wrong information and fake news about what that is happening in this “war”, “Israel is attacking kids, stop them”, “Stop Israel from killing innocent families”, and tons of these lies. Israel is just defending itself so we won’t be harmed by Hamas' rockets. 

Also, Israel won’t just defend itself, Israel attacks the Hamas back with land attacks, air attacks and also attack from the sea and doing its best not killing innocent people, and it’s hard to attack them without killing innocents, so yes, innocents get killed, but not a lot of them, only a few.

To summarize everything, Israel is not attacking innocent families on purpose, we only attack the leaders and the seniors of the terrorism organization, “Hamas”. As a matter of fact, Israel has one of the best, strongest and most moral armies in the world, however, Israel's army also considers and calculates its attacks and that is why Israel still hasn’t beat Hamas.

So I am Erika, 15 years old, a resident of the State of Israel, living in Bat Yam and studying at the Yoana Jabotinsky School in Beer Yaakov.

I've been in a circus circle for 8 years, I love to dance, going out with my friends in my free time, and enjoying life.

In the last year a lot of things have happened in my life (I met new people, I started thinking about my future and I realized that if I started doing something I should finish it without stopping).

For example: in a circus class I have to learn to do something new (jumping unicycle on stairs) and I see that I do not succeed and that it is too difficult for me, but I immediately remember that even when it is difficult we do not stop and keep trying and do our best until we succeed.

In conclusion we are all human beings and we all have difficulties but if we stop every second and cry how poor we are that way our lives will go (boring and sad), then please start living life and enjoy every moment because no one knows when it can all end.

I’m sure all of us know about Israel/Palestine conflict we are right in nowadays. And for us — as for jews, — it’s not that hard to understand, but for entire planet it’s much more difficult.

In my opinion, it’s all anger which has been hidden inside of our minds for too long. Terrorists set their acts of cruelness, and who’re here to suffer are Israel people and little children. When we try to protect our citizens, we are judged, and this is not ok. 

My main request to the world is “stop

spreading the lies”. I can understand celebrities who are Palestinians, but a lot of influencers, who have nothing in common with this country also defend them. They don’t go into details, but make people feel sorry for Palestine. And all this people spread unfounded hate turned to our country. This is bad. So do some countries like Egypt, which somehow believe that Israel should immediately stop the fire. 

But we appreciate the support we’re given from USA, UK, Austria and other countries. I feel that the truth must be shown to people, who still defend "poor Palestinians". 

I hope the war will finish soon:) 

“Israel stole Palestinian ground”, “Israel banished people from their houses for no reason”.

These are quotes from many articles, regarding the war between Israel and Hamas. These statements are a part of the misinformation spread in social media. I want to tell you about what’s really going on.

Firstly, Israel didn’t steal ground from Palestine, because Palestine was never a country. Before the establishment of Israel, our ground belonged to the UK. The Palestinians just lived there illegally. People think that Israel stole ground, even though we legally deserve it.

Furthermore, Israel cares about Palestinians. We provide them medical aid and money every year. We are safe only because of our security system. People think that we are not hurt, but we got more rockets sent to our country.

In conclusion, Israel is innocent and social media blames us for killing Palestinians, even though they do us more damage, as seen in the reasons written above.

 Firstly, buildings were demolished and lives were taken as a result of the conflict, but the media sees only the damage done by Israel and blames it only on them. Israel has "Iron Dome" to protect our country from direct missile strikes. Gaza does not have this technology, so the damage done to them is much greater than the damage done to us.

Furthermore, an entire generation of children lives in fear in our country and the media does not care. The mental damage caused by the conflict is endless and many people remain scarred forever from this situation.

In conclusion - I drew a missile flying towards two people against the background of a city in Israel.

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As an Israeli, I want the world to know that we are humans too . And we are not like this.  It's so upsetting to see all the lies all over social media.  I'm sick and tired. 

It's just because they don't know us , the Israeli people.  

 I want the rest of the world to know more about us , our way of life and culture.  
Israeli people can be annoying, rude , and sometimes even mean , but when you need help , or bad stuff is going on , they are always going to be there for you . 
They are kind, loving and so generous. 
For example, when the tragic death in meron happened, a lot of Israelis helped the families that thei  loved one died / were missing. 
They gave  them food , water, and even invited people to stay in their homes becaus  it's was right before shabbat.  
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When it's around the holidays time , you can always feel the excitement in the air , people are helping each other if there is a need . 
I wish the world could see this , and not listen to the lies that's being going on, on social media.