close encounter with a missile
I just read an amazing description of an Israeli from Ashdod telling about his feeling during a missile attack. I translated part of the text for you.
It’s about 21:20, I’m on my work-bus on my way home from work after another shift. Suddenly we hear a “red color” alarm. What do we do??? Now??? Couldn’t the Hammas wait anothe 5 minutes?
The driver stops close to a mall which was the nearest building. Everything is abandoned except another girl who is also running to the mall. I am running and running and thinking there is no way I’ll get to that mall in 45 seconds. I hear a whistle. I turn back and there I see it – a big yellow light. I pick up the speed, the light passes over my head, 3 seconds later I hear a large BOOM! before I make it to the mall.
I got into the mall, trembling, hyperventilating… dear god, it went right over me. The telephone lines are down, and I know my family is trying to reach me. Later I find out that there is a dead woman and a wounded women from that missile just a few meters fro my position. no way…I got home crying. Crying, trembling, scared, dizzy. The only way to describe my situation is a total helplessness. I was in an unshielded area, so far from the mall, praying that the missile won’t fall on me. When we are at home or at work and we are close to a shielded room it feels differently then out there.
War in Ashdod. War at home.
One might argue that the Gaza people feel the same, but keep in mind the citizens of Sderot felt like this for the past 7 years. even when there was supposed to be a cease fire…
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