Homes of Likud MK, opposition leader’s son damaged in Iran missile strike
Lapid says glass shards from explosion fell on his granddaughter’s bed, urges Israelis to ‘be careful and listen to the instructions of the Home Front Command’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid urged Israelis to obey Home Front Command directives regarding taking shelter on Monday, after his son’s home was damaged in an overnight Iranian missile barrage.
“Glass fell on the spot where her head usually is,” he said in a prerecorded video filmed in his granddaughter’s glass-strewn bedroom. Holding up a large shard, he said that everyone must “be careful and listen to the instructions of the Home Front Command. Be in your protected spaces. Don’t take any risks.”
Eight people were killed by Iranian ballistic missiles that slammed into Israeli cities in at least five locations early Monday, and nearly 300 others were injured, as the conflict entered its fourth day.
Four people were killed in Petah Tivka, three in Haifa, and another person in Bnei Brak. Two of the four people killed in Petah Tikva were sheltering in a protected space in their home, according to reports that cited a preliminary investigation.
Israeli authorities say reinforced rooms located inside apartments are suitable protective spaces in case of attack, though they are largely designed to protect against shrapnel and blast waves, and unlike underground bunkers used for public shelters, cannot necessarily stand up to a direct hit from a heavy missile warhead.
During the attack, Likud MK Hanoch Milwidsky’s Petah Tivka home was also damaged.
Oppiosition Leader @yairlapid shows where glass fragments fell into his granddaughter's bed and urges Israelis to obey Homefront Command instructions regarding staying in protected spaces during attacks pic.twitter.com/TdM5E5np2L
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Addressing a pared-down Knesset session on Monday, Milwidsky said, “Knesset workers and MKs from almost all factions called to ask how I was today.”
“Two Arab MKs also called and these people who were here before do not represent the Arab public and all the Arab MKs,” he added, only minutes after the defeat of a no-confidence motion against the government brought by the Arab Hadash-Ta’al faction.
Coming home
Immigration Minister Ofir Sofer was also affected by the fighting, being forced to return to Israel via a roundabout route via Greece and Cyprus following Friday morning’s Israeli attack on Iran’s nuclear program, sparking a wave of retaliatory missile and drone attacks.
According to Channel 12, Sofer was in Azerbaijan, north of Iran, for a conference on Thursday. There were no direct flights, so he had to fly to Athens and then to the Cypriot city of Limassol before boarding a boat to Israel, which made landfall on Sunday.
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