BAT YAM, Israel—Dazed, shaken but determined, a seaside Tel Aviv suburb awoke on Sunday to a tableau of death and destruction after an Iranian missile slammed into an apartment building overnight, turning a residential street into a warzone.
At least seven people were killed, including an 8-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, and scores were injured in the 2:45 a.m. attack, with two others still unaccounted for as of the late afternoon, in the most lethal Iranian attack on Israel in the current war. (Four others were killed, including a mother and two daughters, in a separate barrage of missiles on the Israeli-Arab town of Tamra in the Galilee.)
“We were in the bomb shelter as soon as we got an alert on our phone, and then we heard a tremendous explosion that sent the door flying,” Snezhana Yaacovlev, 36, told JNS. “There was total darkness; we couldn’t see anything, and when we got out, there was dust all around and the smell of burning. We were all in shock.” The apartments in the nondescript building, just opposite the taller eight-story building that was directly hit by the missile, were demolished and had been cordoned off by security officials assessing damage. (Read more)
