Jerusalem dawned, one more day, with the sound of anti-aircraft alarms. It was the third day of war. At seven in the morning the first alert reverberated, and in less than an hour the inhabitants of the city had to go down to the shelters on two occasions.
City residents were especially scared after the latest attack on Sunday night, which was “terrifying” as he described Paula Bernardeua Spanish citizen who resides in Jerusalem.
The alarm also rang out on two occasions in the early hours of Sunday: once at nine and another at eleven, the second attack of the night being the strongest recorded on Jerusalem since last Saturday the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in coordination with Israel.
A greater number of missiles were heard from the refuge of Jerusalem, which were intercepted closer than ever to their targets. One fell on a road, causing six injuries.
The affected road is the same one taken by journalists who went to cover the attacks in Beit Shemesh to return to the Holy Land hours before. The attacks on March 1, the second day of war, resulted in nine deaths in Israel in this town, inhabited mainly by Ashkenazi Jews – from Eastern Europe – and ultra-Orthodox, and located 30 km west of Jerusalem.
General view of the damage at the site hit by Iranian missiles, which killed at least nine people and injured several others in Beit Shemesh.
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A missile in Beit Shemesh caused the highest death toll since the start of the war, and destroyed the shelter of a synagogue. At ground zero of the attack, the destruction was absolute: broken glass flooded the ground, and a synagogue, its shelter and several cars that were around were destroyed.
There were disoriented neighbors in the place, in pajamas and in a clear state of shock and anxiety, while the emergency services work on clearing debris and searching for bodies.
Baruch Ashkenazia paramedic with United Hatzalah (a volunteer corps that offers emergency services), a member of Neztah Yehuda, the ultra-Orthodox section of the Israeli Army, and a resident of Beit Shemesh, witnessed the impact of the missile.
He ran to the scene, and affirms that he himself removed four bodies from the shelter of the synagogue that was destroyed by the fall of the projectile. “What my eyes have seen has been very hard,” he excitedly declared to EL ESPAÑOL.
Ari Levi y Yota Mehariboth 17 years old and residents of Beit Shemesh, stated that they also saw the missile hit from the house of one of them, which is several streets away. “We heard the siren, we looked at the sky and saw the rocket fall,” they say.
Both explained that on the first night of the war a missile also fell that was not intercepted, but that it did not explode. “This is the greatest tragedy of this war,” Levi concluded.
war escalation
In the latest attacks launched by Iran in the early afternoon, Iran not only attacked Israel, where it has caused at least fifteen injuries in Beersheba, but also attacked Cyprus for the second time – on Sunday two missiles heading towards Cyprus were intercepted – specifically with drones at the British base of RAF Akrotiri.
Hezbollah has joined the regional war that began last Saturday and set the Middle East on fire, attacking Israel for the first time since 2024 in retaliation for killing the Ayatollah. Ali Jamenei.
In total, the militia launched three missiles into northern Israel on Sunday, although none caused any injuries. Israel responded this morning by launching missiles at different points in Lebanon, including its capital, Beirut, where at least 31 people were killed and 149 injured.
Among the dead is Hussein Makledwho served as head of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters.
The war has ended, for the moment, with ten deaths in total in Israel, nine of them in Beit Shemesh on Sunday and the death of a 40-year-old Filipino woman who died on the first night of the war in Tel Aviv. One of the attacks left at least fifteen people injured in Beersheba.
Israel, for its part, claims responsibility for the death not only of Khamenei, but of at least 40 senior officials of the regime.
The United States, along with Qatar, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have condemned Iran’s attacks.
At the moment, the deaths recorded in the attacks in Iran amount to 555 and 747 injured in Iran, according to the Red Crescent. At least 180 of the deaths in Iran have occurred at a school in Minab, a region in the south of the country.
In addition, France, Germany and the United Kingdom affirmed last Sunday that they were willing to attack Iran in collaboration with the United States and Israel to defend their interests in the region in a joint statement. Three American soldiers have been killed and five wounded on Sunday.
On the other hand, the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu He said on Israeli television on Sunday night that the military offensive against Iran will enter a “phase of greater intensity” over the next few days, as did Donald Trumpwhich has also warned that “the great wave” of the offensive is yet to come.
The Israeli Prime Minister also sent his condolences to the affected families and wished a speedy recovery to those injured in the latest attacks, describing these days as “painful” for Israel.
Since the start of the war, the Hebrew State has mobilized, for the moment, 110,000 reservists, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
Despite the attacks in the north of Israel, the hardest hit area, the Minister of Finance, Belazel Smotrichannounced this Monday that its inhabitants will not be evacuated, unlike what happened in the 2024 war with Hezbollah, according to reports The Jerusalem Post.
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