As rocket barrages continue to hit Israel and Gaza and the "Operation Pillar of Defense," launched by Israel against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, enters its sixth day, Israeli and Arab residents in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv have different take on Israel's offensive in the coastal enclave.

For residents in East Jerusalem, a part of the city that the Palestinian National Authority hopes will become the capital of a future Palestinian state, Israel's military operation in Gaza consists another form of what they believe is Israel's occupation.

Many of the residents in the eastern part of the city also hold special status', by which they are permanent residents, but not citizens. East Jerusalem is mostly populated with Arab-Israeli citizens who make up almost half of Jerusalem's population and have strong feelings about the latest round of violence between Israel and Hamas.

"They don't kill military, or destroy any military places, they kill children, damage houses, buildings, they destroy everything," Aasem, a neighbor at the popular Salah al Din street in East Jerusalem, told Xinhua.

"This is war crime, Israel is targeting civilian population, and this is considered war crime," Aasem said.

Other area residents also lashed at Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip.

"I am a Palestinian, and these are my people, they are killing my people. Israel yesterday killed a family, 11, this is terrorism. Children are killed by Israeli planes. The blood is not on the hands of the Palestinians, it's on the hands of Israeli leaders," said Ashraf, another East Jerusalem neighbor.

When sirens sounded for the first time in Jerusalem in decades on Friday, they said they do not mind the lack of shelters in the East side of the city, but the government's lassitude towards them.

"From long time ago, they don't allow even to build houses, how are they going to allow us to build shelters?" Snapped Ashraf, " They don't care what happens to us. For Israel, we are not citizens. We are only land to take, so they will never spend any money on us."

On the other hand, with over 1,350 rockets launched to Israel since Wednesday, the majority of Israelis fully support the military offensive.

Tel Aviv, criticized by many who have even called it "the bubble" for turning its back on the conflict, was also under attack in recent days, and sirens ranged across the city.

"I was not afraid but I was alarmed and I tried to do what they said in the TV and radio. It was a weird experience and it took me back a lot of years ago, but it was nothing to be really afraid of. It was a situation that you have to change your behavior," Michael Telias, a Phd student in Tel Aviv, told Xinhua.

"What was happening in the south, and what continues to happen is unbearable. No one can live with rockets falling almost every day, having to run to take shelter. No other country would allow it either," Telias said.

Israeli media have been informing its citizens about what measures and precautions to take when sirens sound. These precautions include running to seek refuge in a shelter, and if there are none available, to stand in the staircase of the house, which is the safest part of a building in case a missile hits.

"These weeks' sirens in Tel Aviv, it was very scary, but I live in the north of Israel, so there was a time when the katyushas fell on the north, and every time the feeling comes back to me, in front of those katyushas and the need to take the kids and hide," Carmela, an Israeli citizen from the north, told Xinhua.

As Israel entered its sixth day of "Operation Pillar of Defense " and hopes look slim for the success of an Egypt-brokered truce, Israeli troops and tanks continued to station near the border with the Gaza Strip Monday.