Haifa woman whose house was hit by Hezbollah rocket: ‘It’s a miracle’ I was in the safe room

22 September 2024, 4:04 pm

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Zehava Sofer, a resident of Kiryat Bialik, in the Haifa area, describes the Hezbollah rocket attack that hit her home, on September 22, 2024. (Channel 12 screenshot, used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A Haifa woman whose home sustained a direct hit in a Hezbollah rocket attack early this morning says she “hates to think what might have happened” if she wasn’t able to take cover in her safe room during the impact.

“It’s a miracle,” Zehava Sofer tells Channel 12.

Sofer says she could hear loud explosions from inside the safe room in her home in Kiryat Bialik, a suburb of the northern coastal city, and that she stayed put until rescue workers arrived to extract her.

“Everything in the two upstairs rooms was burned,” she said. “The rest of the house I’m not sure, I haven’t checked yet.”

“We can’t live like this anymore. It’s enough. It’s just lucky I didn’t have small children at home,” she adds.

Hezbollah launched some 85 rockets from Lebanon at the Haifa area this morning, following overnight launches at the Jezreel Valley, the terror group’s deepest rocket fire into Israel since the beginning of the war in October.

Two men in their 70s and a 16-year-old girl, the granddaughter of one of the men, were injured in the Haifa attacks and taken to Rambam Medical Center for treatment.