‘People are still going to the beach,’ says Tel Aviv resident as Iranian attacks continuepublished at 20:18 BST 31 March
Gabriela Pomeroy
Live reporter
Image source, Shimon RosenShimon Rosen says debris from a missile crashed onto the house next door to him
Tel Aviv residents have been telling the BBC about frequent
trips to bomb shelters as Iran continues to fire missiles at Israel.
Shimon Rosen says he has been to a shelter more than 100
times this month.
Debris from a missile interception crashed into the roof of
the building next door to him several days ago.
“The whole top floor crumbled,” he says. “I look out of my
window, and I see a brick wall was blown off.
“But people are still going to the beach, bars and parties,”
he says.
A month of sirens waking their children in the middle of the
night has left many parents “destroyed,” says one woman I spoke to who
didn’t want to be named.
She recently ended up in the basement car park of a shopping centre
during a missile siren, and found several tents pitched there. People have been
sleeping there every night so they don’t have to get up when the sirens sound,
she says.
An hour’s drive away in Jerusalem, teacher Shoshana Cohen
says the war brings a real sense of “darkness”.
But during one of the many recent missile alerts, she smiled
when she met a woman in a bomb shelter with her hair covered in silver foils,
as the sirens had interrupted her hair salon colouring appointment.
