Majority of Israelis evacuated from Gaza border villages

70 percent of Israeli residents in villages bordering Gaza have been evacuated amid the ongoing rocket fire from the coastal enclave.

Haaretz report that it has come in response to the death of a four-year-old boy, killed by fire from Gaza, but that Israeli officials have said not to call it an evacuation.

“We were told not to call it an evacuation, only a breather, but we should call a spade a spade. We left the kibbutz since it’s impossible to remain there,” Yael Stadin, a local resident, told Haaretz.