Missiles hit hospitals, homes and families: Inside Israel's terrifying Iranian bombardment

CENTRAL ISRAEL - At slightest six radical were earnestly wounded Thursday greeting erstwhile an Iranian ballistic rocket struck Be'ersheba’s Soroka Medical Center, portion of a broader barrage that besides scored nonstop hits connected Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, and Holon.

"We are hitting atomic targets and rocket targets precisely, and they are hitting the pediatric ward of the hospital. That says it all," said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu portion surveying the harm astatine the hospital.

The attacks connected Israel person near galore stateless and fortunate to beryllium alive. Ariel Levin-Waldman is 1 specified person. He was astatine his in-laws' location successful Rishon LeZion, wherever helium and his household had been staying for respective months during renovations to their ain house—when an Iranian rocket struck the residential neighborhood. The onslaught killed 2 radical and injured dozens; a 3rd unfortunate died during an earlier question of Iranian strikes.

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Smoke rises from a gathering of the Soroka infirmary analyzable aft it was deed by a rocket fired from Iran successful Be'er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, Jun. 19, 2025.  (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

"At astir 5 a.m., I got the aforesaid rocket alert everyone successful the state gets," Levin-Waldman told Fox News Digital. "I grabbed my phone, ran downstairs with my woman and kids, and we made it to the shelter. My mother-in-law joined us."

Then the rocket deed the building.

"There was a flash of light, and everything went dark. We were choking, struggling to breathe," Levin-Waldman said. Realizing assistance mightiness not get successful time, helium continued, "I couldn’t hold to beryllium rescued. We were suffocating, and I was acrophobic we’d beryllium buried alive."

Levin-Waldman tried to survey the harm wrong the shelter, but the heavy unreality of particulate made it astir intolerable to see. All helium could marque retired was that his arms and legs were inactive intact. The level had go uneven, and the walls were damaged from the unit of the blast.

It was astatine that infinitesimal helium realized the explosion had propelled a publication furniture crossed the shelter, hitting his mother-in-law successful the head.

Rescue unit enactment astatine an interaction tract pursuing rocket onslaught from Iran connected Israel, successful Rishon LeZion, Israel, Jun. 14, 2025.  (REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun)

"She was bleeding heavily, and I realized she had been calling retired ‘save us’ successful Hebrew, but her dependable was faint," helium recalled. "I managed to assistance the furniture disconnected my mother-in-law, and erstwhile I did, I saw a imaginable flight route. I cleared the mode truthful my wife, Tali, and our two-and-a-half-year-old, Renana, could get through. I had Ayala, my seven-week-old baby, connected my shoulders arsenic I made the opening. It was conscionable capable to get them out."

As they emerged, firefighters guided them to information onto the street. In beforehand of Levin-Waldman stood a partition of rubble wherever his car had erstwhile been, and his feet were chopped by solid from the explosion.

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Unable to ascent implicit the debris with his younger kid connected his shoulders, helium handed her to a paramedic. Once helium climbed implicit himself, helium looked around—only to recognize Ayala was nary longer successful sight.

"Here I was, covered successful particulate and blood, astir naked, wandering the thoroughfare screaming, ‘Where is my child?" helium recalled. Some radical thought the worst. It took astir 30 minutes to find her."

Ariel Levin-Waldman's babe Ayala carried by a constabulary serviceman taking her to information close aft the location they lived successful Rishon LeZion was deed by an Iranian rocket attack. (Photo courtesy: Dvir Mor )

Only 20 hours aft Levin-Waldman survived the attack, different Iranian rocket struck a gathering crossed from the edifice wherever helium was staying successful Rehovot. "The blast shattered the windows, and the full gathering shook. We had a full level of radical from our vicinity traumatized, reliving the experience," helium told Fox News Digital.

"The hardest portion is confronting however fragile we are and however adjacent we came to disaster," helium said.

Since the struggle began connected June 13, Iranian rocket attacks person killed 24 Israelis and wounded implicit 800.

The missiles bash not discriminate—neither betwixt men and women, children and the elderly, nor betwixt Jew and Arab. That world was tragically underscored implicit the play erstwhile 4 women were killed by a ballistic rocket that scored a nonstop deed connected their location successful the predominantly Arab municipality of Tamra, conscionable northbound of Haifa.

These panic missiles besides marque nary favoritism betwixt the governmental near and right.

Large windows are shown shattered aft what was believed to beryllium a drone onslaught Thursday night. (Trey Yingst)

Israeli Opposition Leader Yair Lapid dodged a calamity connected Monday erstwhile his son’s location successful Tel Aviv suffered harm from the aftershock of a nonstop rocket interaction that near galore residents of the cardinal metropolis homeless. 

"My one-year-old granddaughter’s furniture was covered successful solid from an detonation caused by an Iranian missile. It is horrific to deliberation what would person happened if she had been successful bed," Lapid told Fox News Digital.

"This is the force we are facing—a authorities dedicated to our demolition and aiming to termination arsenic galore guiltless children arsenic possible. We person to remove the atomic threat and the rocket threat—for the information of Israel and the world," helium added.

Coalition lawmaker Hanoch Mildwisky, a subordinate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party, lives crossed the thoroughfare from a gathering successful Petah Tikva–located 6.5 miles eastbound of Tel Aviv–which sustained harm successful an Iranian onslaught that killed 4 people.

"There were dislodged windows and cracks successful the walls," Mildwisky told Fox News Digital. "In the gathering that was hit, determination were unluckily casualties. It was a precise ample missile, carrying astir a ton of explosives, truthful the blast was monolithic and caused important harm adjacent hundreds of meters distant from the interaction site."

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Zaka unpaid Jamal Waraki pulling Israelis retired of the rubble successful the aftermath of Iran's rocket attacks. (ZAKA )

Mildwisky emphasized that Iran indispensable not beryllium allowed to person atomic bombs oregon the capableness to make them—particularly fixed the regime’s repeated declarations of intent to destruct the Jewish state.

As agelong arsenic the menace remains, helium said, Israel volition beryllium forced to proceed its subject operations.

Jamal Waraki, a Muslim unpaid with the ZAKA exigency service, had conscionable completed a rescue mission—pulling an 80-year-old antheral from the rubble—when helium returned location astatine 7:00 a.m. connected Sunday to find his ain location destroyed.

"That night, determination was a rocket interaction successful Rehovot. We tended to the gathering that had sustained a nonstop hit. Once we finished, I went location and discovered that my spot excessively had been struck," Jamal told Fox News Digital.

Thankfully, nary 1 was location astatine the time. Jamal’s household had been staying with his mother-in-law successful Eilat, wherever they inactive are. While awaiting the finalization of caller lodging arrangements, Jamal has been sleeping successful his car.

The gathering successful Lihi Griner's analyzable which was deed by an Iranian rocket attack.   (Lihi Griner )

Lihi Griner is good known successful Israel owed to her quality successful the section spinoff of the Big Brother world TV show. She was successful her harmless country with her hubby and 3 children erstwhile the Iranian rocket struck Petah Tikva, successful the aforesaid vicinity arsenic lawmaker Mildwisky. Griner resides successful a analyzable with 4 residential buildings, 1 of which was straight hit. 

"There was a immense boom," she told Fox News Digital. "The kids were shocked, they started to cry, and we kept telling ourselves that determination was an impact, but we’re alive. It was surreal. I couldn’t judge it happened to me."

After receiving the all-clear to permission the harmless room, she opened the doorway and recovered everything was wholly destroyed. "Our windows were blown retired of the walls, the doors were breached successful half, the walls were damaged with large cracks, and each the balconies successful the beforehand of the gathering were demolished," said Griner.

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Initially, residents were sent to a schoolhouse crossed the street, wherever authorities offered edifice options astatine nary cost. Soldiers aboriginal escorted Griner’s household backmost to their flat truthful they could retrieve their belongings. While the residence is present safe, they can’t slumber determination owed to the deficiency of windows.

"I unrecorded time by day. I’m conscionable blessed we’re alive. It gives america clip to fig retired what comes next," Griner said.

For Levin-Waldman, what came adjacent was an unexpected telephone telephone from the Rishon Lezion municipality connected Wednesday. To his relief, different subordinate of the household had been recovered live and unharmed 4 days aft the attack: their dog, Zvika.