In the suburbs of Tel Aviv, civilians between dread and paranoia-Liberation

It starts with people who run: the first defendants, the most anxious. As soon as projectiles taken from Iran are identified by Israel, all residents of the targeted areas receive an alert by a dedicated application, updated for the occasion. « An alert is expected: get closer to a shelter », Then « Go into the shelter » And, finally, the sirens. It is about 4 p.m. this Sunday, June 15 when they sound in the north and the center of the country. In Bat Yam, a proletarian suburbs south of Tel Aviv, the curious and rescuers near the building struck directly in the night of Saturday to this Sunday are tightened in the shelter of the basement of a school.

A dog trembles with all his body, workers laugh discreetly. A small group of people hugs around a mobile phone, the only one to have the network. On the image, a screen shared between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: this is the first time that Iranian missiles have been going to Israel during the day. The day before, it was around 2:30 that the sirens had triggered. It was not at the refuge that Benny Cohen, 70, thought first, but of his son and his family. « I went out on the street to go find them, and I saw the missile fall, there, As I see you« , he said. « They are 6, 9 and 12 years old », replied the man when a journalist asks him the ages of his granddaughters, before melting in tears. Colleagues crowd around him, hungry