Editor & Publisher Photos of the Year 2008
Honorable Mention Photo Essay 'Sderot Under Fire'
Photographer: Jim Hollander

An Israeli woman screams as she is protected by a friend inside a cement shelter in the center of Sderot as a 'red alert' is sounded on 28 February 2008 and a incoming Palestinian rocket, launched from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel, can be heard seconds before exploding some 50 meters away. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

An Israeli stops to look briefly at the fin of an exploded Kassam rocket embedded in a parking area in the center of the southern Israeli town of sderot on 28 February 2008 as another 'red alert' is sounded during a barrage of rockets fired by Palestinian militants inside the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli police report some 30 rockets fired from Gaza into Israel today. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

An Israeli woman in shock screams as an Israeli policewoman tries to comfort her inside a cement shelter as a 'red alert' is sounded in Sderot on 28 February 2008 as a Palestinian rocket is launched from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel. Behind, Israeli medics lift the legs of an Israeli woman who had fainted during the attack and was brought into the shelter unconscious. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

The shadow of an ultra-Orthodox Jew is cast on another's burlap sack that is worn in place of a 'talit,' or Jewish prayer shawl, as Jews gather at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on 05 Febraury 2008 for a special prayer against the division of Jerusalem, one of the 'core issues' of the Peace deal. The prayer also was for the 'difficult situation' as it pertains to the Palestinian attack yesterday in Dimona and the Jews who live under missile fire from Palestinian militants inside the Gaza Strip, such as in Sderot, in the south of the country. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

An Israeli woman suffering from shock is treated by medics at a Sderot bus stop after a Kassam rocket, fired by Palestinian militants inside the Gaza Strip, exploded on a street in the center of Sderot on 28 February 2008, several meters away. Yesterday an Israeli man was killed during a barrage of Kassam rockets ired from Gaza. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Israelis in the southern town of Sderot run for cover during a 'red alert' sounding a Kassam rocket attack coming from Palestinian militants inside the northern Gaza Strip on 08 May 2008, as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary of statehood. The people were in a cafe when the alert sounded and sought shelter in a building hallway. The Israeli army reports one Palestinian killed and four injured today when the air force fired at militants shooting a Kassam rocket inside the northern Gaza Strip. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

An ultra-Orthodox jew reads a special prayer as he takes part in a mass prayer facing the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel on 06 March 2008. Thousands of Israelis took part in the special prayers at the Wall, Judaism's holiest site, to show their support for Israelis under fire in the south. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Eyal Kedoshim hugs army comrades outside his house in Kibbutz Kfar Aza on 11 May 2008, at the spot where his father, Jimmy, was killed yesterday when a mortar, fired by Hamas militants inside the Gaza Strip, exploded outside their home peppering the house with schrapnel and killing Jimmy instantly. Jimmy, was buried in the kibbutz cemetery today. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

A resident of the southern town of Sderot throws the remains of an exploded Kassam rocket as school children and other protestors block the main entrance into Jerusalem during a protest on 10 February 2008 over the continuing firing of Kassam rockets by Palestinian militants inside the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of angry residents of Sderot protested here and at the offices of Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who they called on to resign, after two Israeli brothers, age 8 and 19, were seriously injured in Sderot last night. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER

Students pass by the exploded ramains of a Palestinian Kassam rocket that exploded on the street in the Sapir College, in the southern Israeli town of Sderot on 28 February 2008. The tail fin of the rocket is behind. One Israeli was lightly injured when he was hit by flying shrapnel. Yesterday Sderot was hit by dozens of Kassam rockets and one Israeli, a father of four, was killed in the Sapir College area. EPA/JIM HOLLANDER