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The Iranian ballistic rocket, which smashed in Rishon Le Zion on Saturday, killed two people, blew roofs and doors from buildings and was so powerful that Shachhar Peled felt her explued in her house, four streets.
But a few hours later, when the 20-year-old Israeli watched the first aiders, how to get away the wrecks of burnt-out cars and broken glass and masonry, she remained convinced that her country was right to start his surprise attack on Iran and his nuclear facilities.
“If this is what Iran can do without nuclear weapons, I don’t even want to think about what they would do if they had them,” she said, pointing to the place of impact, where a house was reduced from pile of rubble, and the palm trees around them with a gray shine made of concrete dust.
“We still think this is the right one.”
The strike in Rishon Le Zion, a city with around 250,000 people south of Tel Aviv, was one of several rocket barrels that Iran shot in Israel in the early morning of Saturday when the decades of shade between the two most powerful military in the Middle East fell into a complete war.
Israel began the fights on Friday with a devastating bomb campaign, in which several high-ranking Iranian commanders, damaged nuclear and military sites and numerous people were killed. It was necessary to prevent Iran from developing an atomic bomb.
Iran replied the fire by launching hundreds of drones and ballistic rockets in Israel. While most of the air defendants were intercepted, some slipped through, killed three people, injured dozens and repeatedly sent hundreds of thousands of Israelis into bomb accommodations.
In two earlier brands between the enemies last year, Israel was largely successful to ward off the barriers of the Islamic Republic, which were telegraphed in advance – the first by several days.
Although the recent strikes of Israel worsened Iran’s ballistic skills, Iran’s restricted areas did far more damage on Saturday than last year. His strength fired several Salvos and concentrated on Tel Aviv, where several rockets came through the defense of Israel.
The locals in Rishon Le Zion have already experienced rocket attacks, including years in which the repeated fights of Israel have attacked Hamas. In 2021, a woman was killed by a Hamas rocket that was only a few streets away from the effects on Saturday.
Nevertheless, many were shaken by the destruction of the far more powerful rockets in Iranian Salvo, the social media with pictures of rockets that roamed over the sky, before they broke out in fire balls when they slammed into their goals.
“This is the second time that it was hit directly in this neighborhood. The last time a woman was killed, cars were burned,” said Nirit Ben Yaakov, a teacher who lives about 200 m from the strike location. “But that was worse. The explosion was so great that I thought it was on our street. We were trembling in the shelter and the door of the shelter. It was very powerful.”
For Yaniv Nimni, whose house was only meter from the impact location, experience was even more shocking.
“I heard explosions in my life. But this is a completely different league. Until it happens to them, they don’t really understand what it means. You can see it here and there (on social media and on television) in Tel Aviv,” he said and looked at the ruins of his house – it was the doors, the roof and the windows, but the safe space in which he was still intact with his family.
“A few meters (closer) and they lose everything.”
Although he first saw the first -hand damage that a war with Iran will probably bring, and despite 20 months of grinding war with the Hamas, only a few of the locals who observed the salvage in Rishon Le Zion had doubts that Israel had taken the right course in initiating the hostility.
“There are only losers in the war. There is also a really big price for the winners. But we have to protect ourselves,” said Adam Shay, a 25-year-old truck driver and argues that if Iran continued to fire, Israel should kill his leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, as was the case with the leaders of Hizbollah and Hsamas last year.
“Israel should destroy any possibility of the enemy to make a threat. Khamenei should receive the message that the legislation he will pay will be the same (Hisbollah leader Hassan). Nasrallah and (Hamas leader Ismail) Haniyeh. “”
Limor Binder, who lives two streets from the strike town, agreed, not least because it was more susceptible to distribute the arch enemy in Israel than for years.
“We don’t want war, we want to be quiet. But Iran has wanted to beat us for so many years and knock out Israel … Now there is no Hamas, no Hisbollah, it is the right time,” she said. “We want to end (the war), but we want it to end well: no nuclear weapon with them.”
