From the lookout point, less than a kilometre from Gaza, littered with a few plastic water bottles and soft drink cans and a broken sofa seat, one can see into the distance across the border fence from where a barrage of rockets came only days ago.
The constant attacks on the city have killed 13 Israelis, wounded dozens, caused millions of dollars in damage and left one third of the town's residents with severe psychological trauma, Harush said.
A battery of Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system that protected Sderot during the eight days of fiercest attacks in November has just been moved, leaving the town to fall back on its tried and tested system of bomb shelters.