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Ashkelon Teenager: There Were 30 Seconds between Me and Death


(Jerusalem Post) Tovah Lazaroff - Anat Suisse, 17, was home alone in Ashkelon when she heard the warning siren. Immediately she raced to the small protected room in the basement. Suisse estimates that she made it to safety within 30 seconds before "I heard a huge explosion and the door of the shelter flew open." A rocket had fallen in the backyard, shattering most of the windows. Each room was filled with hundreds of pieces of jagged glass and trees were uprooted in the backyard. "It is not logical that children my age and children that are much younger, and older people, live in a situation where we regularly have only 30 seconds to save our lives," said Suisse.
2014-07-17 00:00:00
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