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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Melanie Lidman and Ami Bentov

In familiar ritual, Israelis race back and forth to shelters to escape Iranian missile barrages

APTOPIX Israel US Iran - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Constant missile salvos from Iran sent people in central Israel in and out of shelters throughout the day on Saturday after the U.S. and Israel launched a major attack on Iran.

Many apartments in poorer areas are not equipped with adequate shelters. In Jaffa, a mixed Arab-Jewish neighborhood of Tel Aviv, more than 100 people, including Muslim families with young children, religious Jews from a nearby seminary and at least a dozen dogs crammed into the public shelter underneath a park.

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