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Yahoo
04-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
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Telegraph
25-06-2025
- Politics
- Telegraph
Iran's ‘monster missile' exposes Israel's Achilles' heel
It was the deadliest projectile Iran fired in its 12-day war with Israel – and it hit just before the ceasefire came into force. Targeted at the southern desert city of Beersheba, the ballistic missile ripped off the entire side of a residential apartment block shortly before 6am on Tuesday, going on to explode against one of the many 'safe' rooms nestling inside the building. The four people sheltering inside died instantly, bringing the total of Israeli fatalities to 28. Only the previous day, Tehran announced that it had begun using the multi-warhead Kheibar Shekan (Ghadr-H) weapon against Israel, a so-called 'monster missile'. While the IDF has not officially confirmed whether this munition was used in the Beersheba attack, Isaac Herzog, Israel's president, described the projectile in question as 'one of the heaviest missiles in the Iranian arsenal'. That Iran, forced into an ignominious ceasefire, chose to sign off its missile campaign with such brutality sends a clear message. Namely, should Israel decide to break the peace, its civilians will continue to die, and there is little that the Jewish state, despite its sophisticated air defence array, can do to stop it. Tuesday's deaths followed a similar strike in Petah Tikva, east of Tel Aviv, on the first Sunday of the campaign, in which two people who had been following the rules by taking cover in a certified above-ground shelter were killed. Two others also died in the attack. Despite staunch support for the war, these incidents have prompted deep soul-searching among civil society. Israelis know that future wars are probably a matter of when and not if. That newfound sense of vulnerability was obvious this week in a series of vast tented cities in the concrete jungle tens of metres below the streets of Tel Aviv. Shalhevet Freedman, 50, was just bedding down for the night, alongside her mother Claret, 75, and her 17-year-old daughter Daniella. She said: 'I was staying in Petah Tikva because I thought it would be safer than Tel Aviv. 'I was actually close to the direct hit – I realised we weren't safe at all. We are more safe here.' Ms Freedman was speaking four storeys below the Dizengoff Centre, a shopping mall in the heart of the city. Under the glare of bright lights, the hastily repurposed car park is full of small silver tents as far as the eye can see. Families, who either do not have access to a private shelter or no longer trust them, have carved out little corners where, previously, top-of-the-range electric cars would be charged up. Ronen Koehler, from the campaign group Brothers and Sisters in Arms, is one of the organisers. A former submarine captain, the 61-year-old knows a thing or two about encouraging people to work well together in confined spaces. He said: 'The outside world thinks that Tel Aviv is full of modern shelters, but that's absolutely not the case. 'A lot of the buildings here went up in the 40s, 50s and 60s, so they are not equipped.' Mr Koehler explained that the elderly and people with young children often struggle to make it to public shelters within the (approximately) 12 to 15 minutes provided by Israel's early warning system. 'You have young families, kids, being woken up two or three times a night, going down several storeys. Being able to sleep all night is a huge thing.' He added that many younger people living on their own, even those with private shelters, prefer to come underground for the whole night. 'They're terrified of dying alone,' he said. 'Being with other people relaxes them.' The inhabitants of the car park – a designated nuclear shelter – beneath the Dizengoff Centre is the Tel Aviv that the world does not see. The city – with some justification – has a global image as a hyper-modern place full of cool young people who largely shrug off the missile threat. But, on the final night of this round of Israel's decades-long confrontation with Iran, the people camping down for the night –many of whom are working class – look tired and frightened, refugees in their own city. The enormous blast doors are kept open during raids to encourage people to run in. Orit Baisa, a 41-year-old kindergarten medical worker, was cradling a pinscher rescue dog called Sandy. She explained that she had spent more than a year trying to work on the animal's anxiety and aggression issues with various trainers, but the missiles were now causing 'catastrophic' panic attacks, meaning her pet needed to be medicated at all times. A report submitted to the government shortly before Israel's attack on Iran's nuclear and missile programmes found that millions of Israeli citizens are without adequate protection from missiles. It found that some 56 per cent of homes do not have a shelter, and 12,000 of Israel's public shelters are in a state of disrepair. Most Israelis are probably unaware of the report's publication – but they would recognise its contents. Rinat Weinberg, a mechanical engineer from Haifa, 29, said the so-called 'safe' room in her building lacked a proper door and was fortified in parts with sacks of rocks and sand, rather than regulation reinforced concrete. She was down in the Dizengoff car park out of 'curiosity', but looked like she might stay for the night. Ms Weinberg said: 'In Haifa we ended up sleeping in an underground railway station with the trains still coming past the platforms. It was crazy. We're nomads now.' Following Saddam Hussein's Scud missile campaign in the first Gulf War, Israel passed a law mandating that all new residential apartments be built with a protected space. Overall, the options are now broadly categorised as: Mamads, reinforced rooms within apartments or homes; Mamaks, communal protected space on each floor of a residential building, often in its core; and Miklat, public bomb shelters, often underground. However, access to private shelters is heavily weighted away from the poor, the new report found. Ample evidence of this during the recent campaign was to be found in the sprawling, dark and fetid concrete labyrinth in the bowels of Tel Aviv's central bus shelter, in the less affluent south of the city, where another tented community had sprung up. Lyn Tagacay, a care worker from the Philippines, was trying to rock her 11-month-old son Kyle to sleep as midnight approached. She said: 'We didn't have a bomb shelter near us, which meant I couldn't get to it in time without running. 'It was scary and I couldn't deal with it. It's easier to be down here.' As the dust settles on the numerous missile strike sites, the debate over how Israel can better protect its civilians is getting started. Despite Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu's victory statements, it is not yet known to what extent Iran retains any nuclear weapons capability, and therefore the likelihood of future Israeli attacks which would provoke a response. But it is known that the Islamic Republic retains at least hundreds of ballistic missiles, against which Israel's air defence is capable, but not perfect. The hundreds of people underground in Tel Aviv this week, and the nearly 10,000 displaced across the country, know this could all happen again before too long.
National Post
23-06-2025
- Politics
- National Post
Holocaust survivor, 95, identified as fourth fatality in Iranian missile strike
Article content Yvette Shmilovitz, a 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, was confirmed Monday as the fourth fatality when an Iranian missile struck the Israeli city of Petah Tikva on June 16. Article content Petah Tikva Mayor Rami Greenberg mourned the loss, saying, 'We bow our heads and mourn the murder of four of the city's residents… dear, beloved people, whose only sin was wanting to live a peaceful and safe life.' He pledged municipal support to Shmilovitz's family, adding, 'We send a big hug to the family to strengthen them at this difficult time.' Article content Article content Article content Shmilovitz is survived by three granddaughters and four great-grandchildren. Article content Article content The Holocaust Survivors' Rights Authority honored her memory, stating, 'In their death, they command us to walk the paths of hope and resurrection… as women who illuminated their surroundings.' The Authority said its staff remains available to assist Shmilovitz's and fellow victim Bella's relatives. Article content The June 16 strike also killed Yaakov and Desi Belo, and Daisy Yitzhaki. Article content Shmilovitz will laid to rest in Petah Tikva on Tuesday. Article content Iran's missile attacks have killed 24 people and injured over than 1,300. The Israel Tax Authority has received more than 25,000 damage claims related to buildings. Article content Israel launched preemptive strikes against Iranian nuclear sites on June 13, citing intelligence that Tehran had reached 'a point of no return' in its pursuit of nuclear weapons. According to Israeli defense officials, Iran has developed the capacity to rapidly enrich uranium and assemble nuclear bombs, with sufficient fissile material for up to 15 weapons. Article content Israeli intelligence also exposed a covert program to complete all components of a nuclear device. The strikes marked a dramatic escalation in what officials describe as a broader Iranian strategy combining nuclear development, missile proliferation, and proxy warfare aimed at Israel's destruction. Article content
Times
17-06-2025
- Politics
- Times
Israelis lose faith in their safe rooms after Iranian strikes
Standing outside her grandmother's tower block in pyjamas, Nurit implored the local mayor to tell her the truth. While most of the block stood firm, where her grandmother's flat used to be was now a gaping black hole. 'They're not telling me anything. They think she likely didn't survive it, but they won't tell me where she is,' Nurit said. 'She was right there, that's her apartment, all alone. On that floor. I need to know where she is.' The four people who died when the Iranian missile struck the 20-storey tower block in Petah Tikva, a city east of Tel Aviv, were sheltering in reinforced safe rooms in the lower floors of the block. Nurit's grandmother, who lived on the third floor, remained officially unaccounted for on Monday night, but was assumed by rescue workers to be among the dead. Safe rooms have been mandatory in new buildings in Israel since the Gulf War more than 30 years ago — the last time Tel Aviv came under intense fire. Made of solid concrete, they are designed to protect inhabitants from bombs and toxic gases. The missile, fired shortly after 4am on Monday, directly hit the safe rooms, taking with them the hope that they might prove impenetrable to Iranian fire, which is far heavier than the rockets launched by Hamas from Gaza. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said the attack caused Israel's defence systems to target each other, allowing Tehran to successfully hit many more targets than on previous nights. 'There were two rooms where the missile hit. The entire apartment imploded, crushed, and one of the walls smashed into the door, so we needed to use tools to remove it,' said Yariv Sandalon, the city official who led the rescue efforts in Petah Tikva. 'They were in their safe rooms and unfortunately, even though the reinforcement is very strong, the missile hit exactly on it.' The missile moved at eight times the speed of sound, he said. It is the first time that Israeli safe rooms have been tested by the impact of a direct hit from ballistic missiles. Civilians — who use safe rooms, basements, car parks and public shelters — may now have fewer protected places to hide from Iranian attacks. 'If you are on the street and there's a bomb and a siren, what do you do?' Sandalon added. 'You go down under the ground, why? Because it's safer than staying above. You have to assess it like this.' Safe rooms had already lost some of their credibility in the October 7 attacks, when gunmen from Gaza entered southern Israel and opened the unlocked shelter doors to find their civilian victims inside. Now, Israelis may seek to move underground. 'The door of my shelter blew open from the impact,' said Liat Drori, who lives a few metres away from a second impact site in Tel Aviv, near the Carmel market, which used to be a popular tourist destination. 'We are going to try and make it to the government building nearby next time, if we have enough warning. Hopefully it'll be safer.' Eleven people were killed and 100 others wounded overnight into Monday in five locations across Israel, including in the port of Haifa, where three people were found dead from smoke inhalation after rescuers failed to extinguish the fire sparked by a missile strike. Their bodies were eventually recovered from a safe room in the structure where they had taken shelter. The defence minister, Israel Katz, warned that residents in Tehran would 'pay the price and soon' as four days of exchanging fire between the two sides showed no sign of letting up. Those who survived the attacks but were made homeless were evacuated and taken to hospital or moved to hotels, which were quickly filling up. 'I thought the neighbours were playing football, the bang was so loud. I woke up this morning and thought to go back to Egypt, where I came from,' said Yitzhak Dayan, joking amid residents in Petah Tikva who were standing behind police tape waiting to retrieve their possessions. 'I fled Egypt in 1957, now I'm thinking of fleeing back the other way.' In the face of Iranian drones and missiles launched under the cover of darkness, hospitals have moved critical patients, including premature babies, to protected facilities underground. The apartment block in Petah Tikva took a direct hit shortly after 4am on Monday ABIR SULTANEPA Sandalon said that safe rooms above ground were fine, but direct impacts were still dangerous. 'When you build a mamad, a fortified room, it's for hits even just five metres to the side of it,' he said. 'If you want to build it specifically against a direct impact, you need to make the walls much thicker, something like a metre and a half thick.' The current regulations state that walls should be about 40cm thick. 'And if it was directly on them, it's really unfortunate, but that's life,' said Sandalon, 60, hardened by years in military service as an infantry soldier and commander in Lebanon and Gaza. 'They are still very safe,' he said. 'Life is not 100 per cent guaranteed. If you walk on the sidewalk, someone could easily lose control of their car.'
Washington Post
16-06-2025
- Washington Post
In this Israeli city hit by an Iranian missile, many people still support their military's operation
PETAH TIKVA, Israel — When an Iranian missile slammed into this central Israeli city, Miryam was huddled inside the concrete safe room in her family's apartment. Miryam was unscathed by the blast. But four people in the building next door were killed, and the explosion blew off the doors to the apartment and destroyed the kitchen and bathroom.
