Wishing for Darkness

I was combing my hair. After hearing the Kfirs' sound, I was afraid. I can't bear the Kfir sound, and then after they dropped their bombs my hearing worsened a bit.

We lay down in the bunkers. From that day whenever the Kfirs fly overhead we get very afraid.

If in the evening spy planes fly around, we start wishing for the sunrise not to come because after sunrise Kfirs will come.

We get afraid because so many of us can't see well, and one day a child ran quickly to the bunker and fell. So then everyone with eyesight problems gets very scared because we don't know exactly what to do.

And we can't concentrate well in our studies. While writing our notes for studying, Kfirs come often so we have to leave everything and run to the bunkers and it's a disturbance. So studying is more difficult now.

And in classes we can't concentrate because we are afraid the Kfirs are coming. Sometimes we even hear vans go by and think it's Kfirs. Sometimes we can't even eat because while we are eating the Kfirs come and we have to leave our food and run.

Our studies have been affected and the state of our bodies have been very affected...

-Pushparany Kumar, 31 years

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