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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Ted Thornhill

American stuck in Israel describes life under rocket fire as she tries to find a way back to New York City

“You can be walking down the street and suddenly the sirens go off, and you have to run to a bomb shelter. Sometimes, I don’t even know where the bomb shelters are — I just follow the crowd and hope they know.”

New Yorker Joy Rosenthal revealed to The Independent how her daily life now contains periods of intense panic, after becoming trapped in Israel amid the war against Iran.

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