Central Israel – At least six people were seriously injured on Thursday morning when an Iranian ballistic rocket met the Soroka Medical Center from Sheva, part of a broader barrage that also scored direct hits on Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Holon.
“We touch exactly nuclear goals and rocket goals, and they touch the pediatric district of the hospital. That says it all,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as they investigate the damage in the hospital.
The attacks on Israel have left many homeless people and fortunately. Ariel Levin-Waldman is such a person. He was in the house of his parents-in-law in Rishon Lezion, where he and his family have been staying for several months during renovations to their own house-to-house an Iranian rocket hit the residential area. The attack killed two people and was injured; A third victim died during an earlier wave of Iranian strikes.
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Smoke comes from a building of the Soroka Hospital complex after it was hit by a rocket fired from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
Then the rocket hit the building.
“There was a flash of light and everything got dark. We suffocated and struggled to breathe,” said Levin-Waldman. The realization of help might not arrive on time, he continued: “I couldn’t wait to be saved. We were choked and I was afraid we would be buried alive.”
Levin-Waldman tried to investigate the damage in the hiding place, but the thick dust cloud made it almost impossible to see. The only thing he could distinguish was that his arms and legs were still intact. The floor had become uneven and the walls were damaged by the power of the explosion.
It was at that time that he realized that the explosion had pushed a bookcase over the shelter and had hit his mother -in -law.
Rescue staff work at an impact location after rocket attack from Iran on Israel, in Rishon Lezion, Israel, 14 June 2025. (Reuters/Ronen Zvulun)
“She was bleed heavily and I realized that she had called” Save us “in Hebrew, but her voice was bland,” he remembered. “I managed to lift the cabinet of my mother-in-law, and when I did, I saw a potential escape route. I cleared the way so that my wife, Tali, and our two-and-a-half-year-old, Renana, could come through. I had Ayala, my seven-week-old baby, it was just enough to get them out.”
As they appeared, they led firefighters on the street in safety. For Levin-Waldman there was a wall of rubble where his car had once been, and his feet were cut by glass by the explosion.
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Unable to climb over the rubble with his younger child on his shoulders, he gave her a paramedic. Once he climbed over himself, he looked around – only to realize that Ayala was no longer in sight.
“Here I was, covered with dust and blood, almost naked, shouting through the street:” Where is my child? ” He remembered the worst.
The baby of Ariel Levin-Waldman Ayala was worn by a police officer who brought her to safety immediately after the house that they lived in Rishon Lezion was struck by an Iranian rocket attack. (Photo with thanks to: DVIR Mor)
“The hardest thing is to confront how vulnerable we are and how close we got to a disaster,” he said.
Since the conflict started on 13 June, Iranian rocket attacks have killed 24 Israelis and wounded more than 800.
The missiles do not discriminate – neither between men and women, children and the elderly, nor between Jew and Arab. That reality was tragically underlined during the weekend when four women were killed by a ballistic rocket that scored a direct hit in their house in the predominantly Arab city of Tamra, just north of Haifa.
These terror missiles also make no distinction between political left and right.
Large windows are crushed after what was considered a drone attack on Thursday evening. (Trey Yingst)
The Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid avoided a tragedy on Monday when the house of his son in Tel Aviv was damaged by the after -shock of a direct rocket effects that many residents of the central metropolis of homeless people left behind.
“This is the enemy we are confronted with – a regime dedicated to our destruction and strive to kill as many innocent children as possible. We must remove the nuclear threat and the rocket threat – for the safety of Israel and the world,” he added.
Coalition legislator Hanoch Mildwisky, member of the ruling Likud party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lives on the other side of a building in Petah Tikva – 6.5 miles east of Tel Aviv – who suffered damage in an Iranian attack that killed four people.
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Zaka volunteer Jamal Waraki pulls Israelis from the rubble in the aftermath of the rocket attacks of Iran. (Zaka)
Mildwisky emphasized that Iran should not have atomic bombs or the ability to develop them – in particular given the repeated statements of the regime to destroy the Jewish state.
As long as the threat remains, he said, Israel will be forced to continue his military operations.
Jamal Waraki, a Muslim volunteer at the Zaka Emergency Service, had just completed a rescue mission-a 80-year-old man from the rubble he returned home at 7:00 am to find his own house.
Fortunately there was no one at home then. Jamal’s family had stayed with his mother -in -law in Eilat, where they are still. In anticipation of the completion of new housing arrangements, Jamal slept in his car.
The building in the Lihi Griner complex that was hit by an Iranian rocket attack. (Lihi Griner)
Lihi Griner is known in Israel because of her appearance in the local spider -off of the reality -TV show of Big Brother. She was in her safe room with her husband and three children when the Iranian rocket met Petah Tikva, in the same neighborhood as legislator Mildwisky. Griner lives in a complex with four residential buildings, one of which was immediately hit.
After she received the All-Clear to leave the safe room, she opened the door and discovered that everything had been completely destroyed. “Our windows were blown out of the walls, the doors were broken in two, the walls were damaged with large cracks and all balconies at the front of the building were demolished,” Griner said.
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Initially, residents were sent to a school across the street, where authorities offered hotel options free of charge. Soldiers later accompanied Griner’s family back to their apartment so that they could pick up their belongings. Although the house is now safe, they cannot sleep there because of the lack of windows.
“I live day after day. I am just happy that we live. It gives us time to find out what is coming next,” said Griner.
For Levin-Waldman, what came after was an unexpected phone call from the municipality of Rishon Lezion on Wednesday. To his relief, another member of the family was found alive and unharmed four days after the attack: their dog, Zvika.
