Persian → English transcript

Kasra, tell us about the situation in Tel Aviv.

Jamal, Iranian missile attacks have

continued here.

Several times today

these warning sirens have gone off,

and the last time

the warning siren went off,

it was a Hezbollah missile attack here.

We should keep in mind that the distance from Lebanon to here is very short,

and when a missile

is fired from Lebanon toward here,

there is very

little time to supposedly warn people.

So our phones today,

when the missile was

fired from Lebanon,

our phones did not give us a warning,

and we only immediately heard a quick emergency siren.

And that was something new.

In these few days that we have been here,

we had not seen Hezbollah missiles reach Tel Aviv,

and given the

sound of that

big explosion,

those big explosions we heard, it was clear that it was a big missile.

What kind of missile it was, only God knows. But before that, these few times when

there were Iranian missile attacks, It caused damage here in this area,

near Tel Aviv and a bit farther out.

And today two people were killed,

two construction

workers who

were working on

a building.

A large number,

several people were also injured. Altogether,

I was just reading that one of the aid organizations here wrote that in the past 24

hours 76 people have been injured here and now two people have been killed.

It seems that this

is a situation that

is becoming harder and harder for people here to bear.

And the Israeli army just last night was talking about how this situation,

meaning the

rocket attacks,

could continue for

a long time.

We should keep in

mind that here in

Israel everything is half shut down.

Right here in Tel Aviv many shops are closed,

many businesses are closed.

The streets are completely

deserted and you do not see many cars or many people in the streets.

Today one of our journalist colleagues was coming from Jerusalem,

He was saying the whole market there is completely shut down,

he was showing me photos that it is completely empty.

So the situation is one that is becoming

a problem for the Israeli government.

They were supposed to reopen the schools

from next week but now I have heard that the reopening of the schools has also been

postponed for now.