Israeli Defense Penetrated: Iranian Ballistic Missiles Cause Casualties and Damage

Israeli Defense Penetrated: Iranian Ballistic Missiles Cause Casualties and Damage. New tonight, attacks continue between Israel and Iran. Israel now confirming at least 14 people are dead, while Iran’s health ministry says more than 200 people have been killed since attacks that began on Friday.

The Associated Press now reporting that President Trump rejected a plan by Israel to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader, fearing a violent regime could destabilize the region. Many, meanwhile, many in Israel are now having to shelter in place for protection. Oren Lieberman takes a look at what Israeli families are experiencing.

Glued to the news, Rivi Ginsberg waits for the order she knows is coming. Her husband, who doesn’t want to be on camera, checks his phone for the latest from Israel’s home front command.

The last two nights have been a race between the bedroom. And the Mahmud, the Hebrew word for bomb shelter. This is our shelter, Rivi tells me. You see how we get used to it here. We have mattresses.

We came to realize that most of the action is at night, an afterthought for so long, the room has become a home within a home cleared out. To make room for 10 people and 3 generations, we have mattresses so 3 kids can sleep on them at night, some toys, coloring books, we just don’t know.

Red alerts warning of incoming missiles and drones across the country have sent families scrambling to bomb shelters and reaching for their phones. Everyone checks everyone, she says. Immediately you’re in touch with everyone.

As soon as Israel carried out its first strikes on Iran late Thursday night, Israel’s government ordered its citizens to stay near shelters for safety, but the system has not been perfect, and Iranian ballistic missiles have pierced Israel’s missile defenses.

The damage and the deaths have brought the realities of war once again directly into Israel’s homes. We would have preferred that they first sort out the operation in Gaza that’s lasted so long and the hostages are not returned and only then turned to other fronts, but no one asks us.

In what could be the early days of another war, Ginsberg has tried her best to find moments to laugh with her family.

The situation is far from funny, she says, but you have to keep your sanity. You have to keep your normalcy with the family. No, Oren Lieberman, CNN, central Israel.