Reporting from bersheba, Southern Israel
EPAThe residents of the southern Israeli city of Barsheba were awakened on their phone with the sound of missile alarm on Tuesday, due to being effective shortly by a ceasefire between Iran and Israel.
“Extreme Alert,” reading the message, warning of a adjacent strike. Then the siren looked on the roads.
Like others, Merava Mane and his family went to his safe room – designed to protect a safe part of his apartment and rocket attacks made of reinforced concrete with a heavy metal door.
When the Iranian missile hit, he felt the building and covered his head with his arms.
“It was so strong that we thought it was,” he said.
EPAWhen they emerged, the windows in front of their flat were shattered across the floor due to the missile explosion. But they were safe.
Merva stayed in the flat for several hours, who will see outside, afraid of him.
Across the road, a block was not dissatisfied for him, was directly killed and partially collapsed.
Four people were killed there. A spokesman for the Southern Home Front Command told the BBC that they were also inside safe rooms when their building took a direct hit.
After the strike, Israeli Medix and military personnel reached Barsheba to save the remaining people and recover the remains. Volunteers and local residents swept the broken glass from the roads.
“I hope this ends,” a person told the BBC that he surveyed the damage.
EPABoth Israel and Iran confirmed after Barsheba’s strike, they had agreed to a ceasefire, but then accused each other of violating it.
As the residents of Barsheba shocks and dealing with damage to their community, they also questioned whether the delicate Trus would be caught.
On Tuesday afternoon, 45 -year -old Oren Cohen was standing in his garden amidst the rubble, ignoring by the block. He said that he cannot bring himself to see it.
“I was worried about my children, so now I am only realizing what happened here,” he said.
Oren was with his wife and three children – eight, 12 and 15 – when the strike took place, and the reinforced window flew open on the effect of the explosion.
As he said, a group of volunteers in Fluorescent West arrived to help with cleanliness.
Even after directly impressed, Oren said that he supported Israel’s attacks on Iran, who marked the beginning of the 12-day struggle.
“I think we had no other option,” he said. “We do what we have to protect ourselves.”
He said he did not know if he could “count the ceasefire”, but trusted the Israeli government to know when he had achieved his goals.
As Merava first left her home on Tuesday to assess the loss in her community, she also said that she believes that Israel had no choice but to attack Iran.
“This must have happened soon or later. We were ready for it,” he said.
