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Liz Abutbul and her fiance (left) and a customer at a hair salon a few doors down from a business hit by a Qassam rocket a few months prior in downtown Sderot, Israel on May 28, 2008. Sderot, an Israeli town of 25,000 a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip, has been the regular target of Qassam rocket fire originating the Gaza Strip; small business owners in Sderot are forced to close if the barrage of Qassams become too much throughout the course of the day.