Jerusalem, Israel - Nov. 11, 2018 - Since 2001, 25,000 rockets and missiles have hit southern Israel from Gaza. Eighty-one communities are under fire. Residents feel they are living on the front line of a war zone.

Seven months ago a new terror method from Gaza began in the form of fire kites and balloons. Tired of relentless attacks, after years of feeling they are ignored, the “backyard” of the country, residents of these border communities are speaking up.

A group of students who have grown up under threat from Gazan terror began to march to Jerusalem on Sunday, November 4, arriving at the Wohl Rose Garden across from the Knesset on Thursday afternoon.

The high school students on a five-day walk from southern Israel were joined by hundreds of other students and families in the park before sunset.

President Reuven Rivlin joined the marching students briefly as they entered Jerusalem, but no politicians participated in the organized program. Students sang sad songs of burning fields and red alerts of incoming rockets. Other young people recounted tales of trauma. Mothers with tiny babies, high school girls from Jerusalem, and Ami Farhan, who was a resident of Yamit, were among the hundreds of people who attended the program which ended with all standing and singing Hatikvah.

Quiet for 17 years, but no longer, residents of south want to live in quiet, have their anguished voices heard. They want their government do more to protect them, as their marching signs said, "Let Us Grow up in Quiet."