Cara-villa in Karmiya following Qassam attack
Photo: Amir Cohen
Following Friday’s Qassam rocket attack on the cara-villa (luxury mobile home) site in Kibbutz Karmiya, during which two men and a baby were injured, the residents moved en-masse to an IDF rest and recreation village in Ashkelon until a solution is provided to ensure their safety.
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Hanan Greenberg
Qassam strike: Four people, including baby, hurt after Qassam hits their mobile home in kibbutz Karmiya south of Ashkelon. Infant injured after sustaining head wounds; home belongs to Gaza evacuees
The residents, who were evacuated from Gush Katif during last summer’s Gaza disengagement, are currently camped inside the village dining room.
“We have decided to move here because it is much safer,” Evacuee Committee Chairman David Yamin said.
“They told us there are no vacancies. We are waiting for a Disengagement Authority official to come and provide us with a solution. In any case, we don’t plan on leaving until they give us rooms. We will not return to the cara-villas in Karmiya until we are presented with a solution to the Qassam rocket fire."
'People were waiting for disaster to strike'
Police officers were dispatched to the scene to maintain order.
The cara-villa site residents are considering the option of traveling to the Knesset in Jerusalem on Sunday to protest the fact that nothing has been done to protect them from the Qassam attacks.
“There was always the sense that people were waiting for disaster to strike, but now that it has, we still don’t see the authorities waking up to help us out,” Karmiya resident Anat Ben-Ami said.
“Our trauma is double that of Kibbutz Karmiya members, because every Qassam attack takes us back to that period (in Gaza).