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"The World Needs This War Even If They Don't Know It"

(Sunday Times-UK) Gabrielle Weiniger - The Iranian missile strike on a residential building in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam happened at 2:30 a.m., but rescue workers were still working to recover bodies well into the late afternoon, with many unaccounted for. A direct hit killed seven including two children. An entire block was turned skeletal, dozens of buildings damaged beyond repair, windows shattered and shutters hanging off their hinges. The building's owner, Israel Dezoraev, said, "This is my life. I'm not in shock. I am optimistic. I don't care if they'll pay to fix this building. We need this war. Europe needs it, America needs it, and all the world need it - even if they don't know that yet." Dezoraev, who arrived from the former Soviet Union as a child, added: "In the Bible, if someone comes to kill you, you have to kill him first." Col. Mickey David, commander of the Tel Aviv district in the Home Front Command, said: "You see at every scene you go to. Anyone who was in a protected area was saved. Even when there is no safe room or shelter, if you go to the most protected place there is, like a stairwell, it saved lives." Speaking in Bat Yam, Prime Minister Netanyahu said, "We are in an existential battle, one that every citizen of Israel now understands. Think about what would happen if Iran had nuclear weapons to drop on Israeli cities. Think about what would happen if Iran had 20,000 such missiles....This is an existential threat to Israel."
2025-06-17 00:00:00
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