The Israelis share survival stories after Iranian missiles hit their house

Center -Israel – At least six people were seriously injured Thursday morning when an Iranian ballistic missile struck the Soroka medical center in Be’ersheba, which is part of a wider dam which also marked direct successes on Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Holon.

“We precisely reach nuclear targets and missile targets, and they strike the pediatric service of the hospital.

The attacks on Israel have left many homeless and are lucky to be alive. Ariel Levin-Waldman is one of these people. He was at the home of his in -laws in Rishon Lezion, where he and his family had stayed for several months during the renovations of their own house – when an Iranian missile struck the residential area. The attack killed two people and injured dozens; A third victim died during an anterior wave of Iranian strikes.

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The smoke rises from a building at the Soroka hospital complex after being struck by a missile from Iran in Be’er Sheva, Israel, Thursday, June 19, 2025. (Photo / leo Correa)

“Around 5 am, I obtained the same missile alert as everyone in the country obtains,” Levin-Waldman told Fox News Digital. “I caught my phone, I ran down with my wife and children, and we arrived at the refuge. My mother-in-law joined us.”

Then the missile hit the building.

“There was a flash of light, and everything was black. We are suffocating, fighting to breathe,” said Levin-Waldman. Performing help may not arrive in time, he continued: “I was looking forward to being rescued. We are suffocating and I was afraid of being buried alive.”

Levin-Waldman tried to rethink the damage inside the refuge, but the thick cloud of dust made it almost impossible to see. All he could do is that his arms and legs were always intact. The soil had become uneven and the walls were damaged the strength of the explosion.

It was at this point that he realized that the explosion had propelled a bookseller through the refuge, hitting his mother-in-law at the head.

The rescue staff work on an impact site following an Iran missile attack on Israel, in Rishhon Lezion, Israel, June 14, 2025. (Reuters / Ronen Zvulun)

“She was bleeding strongly and I realized that she had called” US Save “in Hebrew, but her voice was weak,” he recalls. “I managed to lift my mother-in-law’s office, and when I did it, I saw a potential evacuation path. I opened the way for my wife, Tali, and our young and a half, Renana, could go. I had Ayala, my seven-weekly baby, on my shoulders when I was opening. It was just enough to get them out.”

To their emergence, the firefighters guided them towards security in the street. In front of Levin-Waldman stood a wall of rubble where his car was, and his feet were cut by the glass of the explosion.

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Unable to climb on debris with his young child on his shoulders, he gave it to a paramedical ambulancer. Once he went up on himself, he looked around – to realize that Ayala was no longer in sight.

“I was here, covered with dust and blood, almost naked, wandering in the street screaming:” Where is my child? “He remembered. Some people thought the worst. It took about 30 minutes to find it.”

Ariel Levin-Waldman’s baby Ayala wore by a police officer putting her in safety just after the house they lived in Rishon Lezion were struck by an Iranian missile attack. (Photo graceful: dvir mor)

Only 8 p.m. after Levin-Waldman survived the attack, another Iranian missile struck a building in front of the hotel where he stayed in Rehovot. “The explosion has broken the windows, and the whole building trembled. We had a whole floor of our traumatized neighborhood, reviving the experience,” he told Fox News Digital.

“The most difficult part is to confront how fragile we are and to what extent we have become a disaster,” he said.

Since the start of the conflict on June 13, Iranian missile attacks have killed 24 Israelis and injured more than 800.

Missiles do not discriminate – neither between men and women, children and the elderly, nor between Jews and Arabs. This reality was tragically underlined during the weekend, when four women were killed by a ballistic missile which marked a direct blow on their house in the city at the Arab predominance of Tamra, just north of Haifa.

These terrorist missiles also do not distinguish between the political left and the right.

Large windows are presented after what was supposed to be a drone attack on Thursday evening. (Trey Yingst)

The head of the Israeli opposition, Yair, Lapid, dodged a tragedy on Monday when his son’s house in Tel Aviv suffered damage caused by the replica of a direct missile impact which left many residents of the homeless central metropolis.

“The bed of my one-year-old granddaughter was covered with a glass of an explosion caused by an Iranian missile. It is horrible to think what would have happened if it had been in bed,” Lapid told Fox News Digital.

“This is the enemy we face – a regime dedicated to our destruction and aimed at killing as many innocent children as possible. We must suppress the nuclear threat and the threat of missiles – for the security of Israel and the world,” he added.

The legislator of the Hanoch Mildwisky Coalition, member of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, lives in front of a building in Petah Tikva – 6.5 miles east of Tel Aviv – which has undergone damage in an Iranian attack that killed four people.

“There were windows and cracks dislodged in the walls,” Mildwisky told Fox News Digital. “In the building that was affected, there were unfortunately victims. It was a very large missile, carrying almost a ton of explosives, so the explosion was massive and caused significant damage, even hundreds of meters from the impact site.”

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Zaka volunteer, Jamal Waraki, leaving the Israelis from the rubble following Iranian missile attacks. (Zaka)

Mildwisky stressed that Iran should not be allowed to have atomic bombs or the ability to develop them, given the repeated declarations of intention of the regime to destroy the Jewish state.

As long as the threat remains, he said, Israel is forced to continue its military operations.

Jamal Waraki, a Muslim volunteer from Zaka’s emergency service, had just finished a rescue mission – causing an 80 -year -old man from the rubble – when he returned home at 7:00 am Sunday to find his own destroyed house.

“That night, there was an impact on the missiles in Rehovot. We tend to have held the building that had suffered a direct blow. Once we finished, I went home and I discovered that my place had also been struck,” Jamal told Fox News Digital.

Fortunately, no one was at home at the time. Jamal’s family had stayed with her mother-in-law in Eilat, where they are still. Pending the finalization of new housing arrangements, Jamal was sleeping in his car.

The building of the Lihi Griner complex which was struck by an Iranian missile attack. (Lihi Griner)

Lihi Griner is well known in Israel because of its appearance in the local spin-off of the Big Brother reality TV show. She was in her security room with her husband and three children when the Iranian missile struck Petah Tikva, in the same district as the Mildwisky legislator. Griner lies in a complex with four residential buildings, one of which was directly affected.

“There was a huge boom,” she told Fox News Digital. “The children were shocked, they started to cry, and we continued to tell us that there was an impact, but we are alive. It was surreal. I could not believe that it happened to me.”

After receiving the whole to leave the safe room, she opened the door and found that everything was completely destroyed. “Our windows were jumped out of the walls, the doors were broken in half, the walls were damaged with large cracks, and all the balconies in front of the building were demolished,” said Griner.

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Initially, the residents were sent to a school on the other side of the street, where the authorities offered hotel options at no cost. Later, the soldiers escorted the family to Griner at their apartment so that they can recover their personal effects. Although the residence is now sure, they cannot sleep there due to the lack of windows.

“I live day by day. I am just happy that we are alive. It gives us time to understand what comes then,” said Griner.

For Levin-Waldman, what came then was an unexpected telephone call from the municipality of Rishon Lezion on Wednesday. At his relief, another family member had been found alive and unscathed four days after the attack: their dog, Zvika.