This article, from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, tells something of what it's like for Israeli communities living under rocket fire from Gaza:
During the last two weeks the 6,500 residents covered by the Sha'ar HaNegev Regional Council, including 10 kibbutzim (collective Israeli communities, often sharing common social or religious values), have been under constant threat of rocket attacks, said Council spokesperson Michal Shaban-Kotzer. Many communities have been forced into protected shelters daily, sometimes for hours, multiple times per day, she said.
The Council's territory lies midway between Beersheba and Ashkelon, bordered on the west by Gaza.
Municipalities are providing trauma counselling for mothers and children.
Hannah Tal, therapist and social worker from the three-year-old Resilience Centre that has treated some 400 members of the Sha'ar HaNegev community, said children suffer from bed-wetting, nightmares, and fear of being alone.
"Very few have been killed or injured by the attacks," said Tal. "The trauma results from the apprehension of not knowing where or when there will be an attack."
For the past few weeks movement on the street and children's playtime outside has been restricted, she said.
Tal and her own family, living in Karmia, between Ashkelon and Gaza, were forced to take shelter in the "safe-room" of their home 45 times last weekend, warned by loudspeakers announcing "code red".
Militants in Gaza fired at least 140 rockets (mostly crude, home-made Qassams) and mortars at Israel during four days of fighting on 7-10 April, reported the Israeli army, during which hundreds of thousands of Israelis took shelter in secure areas.
If you're somewhere safe, try to picture this for the children living in your area. Later in the same piece Hamas deputy foreign minister Ghazi Hamad is quoted as saying 'Hamas is against targeting civilians'. A Red Cross official, Mathilde Redmatn, says that 'rocket-fire from the Gaza Strip is against international law because it is directed at civilians'. So it's her word against his, I suppose. But what do the BDS folk think about rocket-fire from Gaza directed against Israeli communities? I'll have to do research and get back to you on that one.