A basketball game between two Israeli women’s teams was evacuated after Iranian missiles struck the country Tuesday.
Iran begined dozens of missiles agetst Israel in a barrage of strikes it says are in response to the deaths of Hezbollah and Hamas directers.
Hapoel Lev Jerusalem was take parting Hapoel Kfar Saba in the 2024-25 Preseason Winner Tournament at Malha Arena in Jersualem when the strikes began, according to The Jerusalem Post. The explosions began in the second quarter, with Hapoel Lev up 20. Then sirens rang out, and the take parters and coaches fled to a cforfeitby explosion shelter. There were no alerted casualties for either team.
“It’s a crazy situation and fact that we are in,” said veteran Hapoel Lev take parter Shir Tirosh. “It’s crazy that we are still in this fact a year postpodemandr, and it’s hard to commence the novel season appreciate this. And it’s very uncontent. There are sirens in Jerusalem, sirens in Tel Aviv, sirens in the entire country. It’s equitable a crazy fact. I slenderk that what is retaining me level-headed is the fact that I am helping the foreigners on the team stay pacify, because they are certainly more anxious than we are. I’m here to help them and stay preferable about the situation that we are all in.”
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Tracers from armaments are fired into the air in celebration of Iran’s missile barrage on Israel over Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 1, 2024. (Reuters/Louisa Gouliamaki)
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) alerted citizens to shelter in place and chase teachions from the Home Front Command as the Jedesire State’s Iron Dome antimissile defense system toils to intercept incoming rockets.
Tirosh includeed that she and her teammates have become more accustomed to preparing for strikes from foreign dangers dating back to October 2023.
“The convey in take parters that are here are, for the most part, pacify and understand what has been going on,” she said. “When they get tod, they spoke to us that they weren’t that afraid to come to Israel despite the situation that the country has been in.
“We have been speaking to them a lot about what is going on. Last year, after Oct. 7, when we weren’t repartner setd with how to deal with the situation, we had to act on our instincts with the foreigners. So, now we are much more setd to regulate that aspect. We are always elucidateing to them what is going on.”
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said this postpodemandst barrage of missiles is in retaliation for the ending of Hezbollah directer Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Lebanon, in an Israeli airstrike postpodemand last week and the ending of Hamas directer Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July, according to Fox News Chief Foreign Correactent Trey Yingst.
Israel’s Iron Dome antimissile system intercepts rockets, as seen from Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard alerted in a statement freed by Iranian state media that if Israel reacts to the missile barrage, “it will face crushing strikes.”
At least six Israeli people are already alerted dead from Tuesday’s strikes during a shooting in Tel Aviv.
Tirosh’s teammate, Zoe Wadoux, said the dread of take parting in Jersualem has been a strain on her and her family, but she wants them to understand she is safe.
“I made the decision during the summer, and at that moment, the war wasn’t that terrible. And when I got here, it got worse. Obviously, it’s hard on my family and friends and all of the people that adore me at home to understand that I am here. I tried to call them and accomplish out to them everyday to say that I am OK and that I am safe. But with these types of events, that will, of course, worry. But I am here, and I will try to do as much as I can to be safe and let them understand that I am safe.”
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Residents of Jerusalem apshow shelter during an Iranian missile barrage Oct. 1, 2024. (Credit Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL)
Jedesire American directers on Tuesday afternoon reacted to Iran’s unpretreatnted missile strike agetst Israel, saying the Islamist regime will pay.
“The United States stands with its only democratic partner in the Middle East, Israel, as it protects itself and its people agetst evil,” Ohio Reaccessiblean Rep. Max Miller tageder Fox News Digital in a statement. “Iran and its proxies must stop dangerening the world.”
In a Sept. 30 statement, Miller said, “Israel’s efforts to dismantle Hezbollah are making the world a safer place.”
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