Jerusalem residents wait for the next Israeli attack on Iran now that the Jewish new year has ended
A Jerusalem resident has told Newsweek how she is braced for more missile attacks on Israel following the Jewish new year, Rosh Hashana, and described living in fear of being hit by an explosion.
When 200 Iranian ballistic missiles came raining down on Israel last Tuesday, Polina Hasin rushed with her mother, her son and her dog to their apartment building’s bomb shelter.
From there, they could hear the explosions overhead as Jerusalem’s Iron Dome defense system shot down missiles over the city’s skies.
« It was very frightful, because you hear the huge booms. And there is another danger that the fragments of the rockets can fall down on people », she told Newsweek.
One of her friends was driving from northern Tel Aviv to Netanya, a city in north central Israel, when the Iranian missiles came flying over.
« He is a guy who served in the army, and who has a vast security experience, and he said that I haven’t ever seen anything so frightful. It was just a rain of fireworks, huge fireworks everywhere, everywhere. »
Israeli authorities advise people to get out of their car during a missile attack and lie down several meters from their vehicle.
« I asked my friend: ‘What did you do?’ And he said, you know, I was so frightened that I was just driving like crazy. And praying. »
« This time was the worst possible imaginable attack one can think of and the [Israeli] territory is very small », Hasin said.
Israeli military spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told the Associated Press that the country’s air defenses intercepted many of the Iranian missiles, though some landed in central and southern Israel.
