Man whose home was hit by Hezbollah rocket: ‘We were 30 seconds and 3 centimeters from death’

23 September 2024, 2:47 pm

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Dudi Yitzhaki, whose home in Givat Avni was hit by a Hezbollah rocket on September 23, 2024 (Screen grab via Channel 12 used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

A man whose home was hit by a rocket fired from Lebanon today says that he and his family were “30 seconds and three centimeters” from death, and were only saved because they ran to their reinforced room and shut the door when the sirens sounded.

“It was a matter of 30 seconds and three centimeters, that’s the only reason we are alive,” Dudi Yitzhaki, whose home in Givat Avni in the Galilee was hit, tells Channel 12.

“I was in the middle of a phone call for work outside when the siren started. I entered the house and went into the reinforced room,” he says.

“It was a matter of 30 seconds and then we heard an unbelievable explosion. I immediately realized it had hit the house,” he says.

Yitzhaki says he believes they were saved because they followed the Home Front Command instructions of not only entering a protected area when the sirens began, but also securely shutting the door.

He says the rocket hit very close to the entrance to their protected room.

“This is the message I want to send. The instructions save lives,” he says. “If the door had been open, we would be dead.”