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American-Israeli Family Speaks from Bomb Shelter as Hamas Launches Attack on Their Community

(Fox News) Yael Halon - Avishai and Esther Schlesinger huddled together with their one-year-old son in a bomb shelter late Tuesday as Palestinian terrorist groups fired a barrage of rockets into their hometown in Givat Shmuel. Esther, who moved to Israel 16 years ago, told Fox News: "We were in the middle of making dinner, we had food on the stove, and we all of the sudden heard the siren." She immediately ran to her son's room. "I didn't have time to grab anything. I didn't have time to grab my phone. We just ran into the shelter and we kept hearing explosion after explosion." As the Iron Dome intercepted rockets overhead, Esther and her husband held their crying infant and waited for the worst to pass. "It was terrifying...it's just so crazy that this is happening, just the thought that any minute there could be an explosion on my entire house." "I literally was holding my son in the bomb shelter tonight thinking that I'm grateful that he isn't old enough to understand why I had to quickly grab him out of his crib and just run within 20 seconds into our bomb shelter....There are so many stories I've heard from people tonight who were stuck, and the amount of people that were there for each other and said 'please take shelter with me,' complete strangers, pulling fellow Israelis into their homes to make sure that they're safe."
2021-05-12 00:00:00
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