Mother whose house was hit by rocket says incident was a ‘miracle’

Miri Tamano, the mother of three who saved her kids yesterday by taking them to a shelter seconds before a rocket hit her home in Beersheba, says the incident was a “miracle.”

“I’m a bit riled up. A miracle happened to me and that’s what’s important,” the 39-year-old tells reporters.

“I heard the siren while sleeping,” she adds. “I thought it was in a dream or that I was imagining it, but then I came to my senses and realized it was real. I immediately ran and told the kids: ‘Run to the shelter immediately.’ I held them so that they don’t fall at the stairs. Straight after everyone went in I closed the door.”

The rocket then hit the house and destroyed a large portion of it.

“We hadn’t even sat down and we heard a boom,” she says, thanking emergency responders for arriving quickly and saying it is important to go to shelters and close the door, because “had I not closed the door, there would have been fatalities.”