(Ha'aretz) Odelia Ben Porat - On Sunday at 8 a.m., we heard the Red Alert sirens warning of an incoming rocket attack. The sirens were followed immediately by a long and continuous series of enormous explosions. My two-and-a-half-year-old daughter started to cry hysterically, "I don't want wed alert!" while my one-year-old daughter kept trying to sneak out of our family bomb shelter. Suddenly we heard a huge boom as a rocket exploded just a few meters away. It is difficult to describe in words how rapidly my heart pounded after the blast. We had been meters away from certain death or injury.
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