On Monday, a missile made a direct hit in our city (blog post here). This missile hit a synagogue and the neighborhood shelter underneath it. 9 people were killed, many related to each other: an adult mother and daughter (the daughter, in her 40s, volunteered as an EMT. I can't imagine what it was like for members of her team to be searching for her/finding her body in the rubble. Three of her children were wounded, but not critically).
Three teenage siblings were killed in their house near the impact site. Their father, a rabbi, said at their funerals, “Our patriarch Abraham bound one son, I bound three,” he said. “I bound my son Yaakov, my daughter Avigail and my daughter Sara. Gd wanted to take these holy souls.” The family is sitting Shiva a hotel in Jerusalem as their house was destroyed....
Another family had an incoming missile siren during the funeral....
This is a good article about the people who were killed: https://www.timesofisrael.com/four-of-the-9-victims-of-iranian-missile-strike-on-beit-shemesh-named-by-authorities/
This is what a friend's living room, about 1/2 mile from the impact looked like after:
A good reminder that, although people died while in the shelter, many people were saved in the same shelter
For anyone interested in helping financially, Lema'an Achai, the organization I do a lot of volunteering for, is one of the organizations helping with urgent needs the families have, like clothing and items for daily life:
https://www.lemaanachai.org/en/project/emergency-campaign-beit-shemesh-hit-by-rockets/
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