(20 Jun 2025)
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Ramat Gan, Israel – 18 June 2025
1. View of escalator showing crowd with their belongings gathering at underground metro station seeking shelter
2. Various of people with their belongings going down escalators
3. Various of people on mattresses
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Roi Asraf, resident:
“I don’t like to take unnecessary risks. We have a safe room at home. Right on the first day, even before we saw what those missiles could do, the impact of these missiles, I decided on a personal level that I don’t want to take unnecessary risks. Unfortunately, after the hit in Petach Tikva, where people were hurt even inside the safe room, I decided to sleep here. I hope it will be short and quick, but if I have to sleep a week of my life in a train station for everything to be safer, I’m willing to do it.”
5. Various of people at street on their way to metro station
6. People inside metro
7. Residents walking next to people laying on mattresses
8. People at underground metro station
9. Babu Chinabery sitting on mattress
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Babu Chinabery, resident:
"[We’re here] because we are very scared about the missiles because they’re so strong. Before it hasn’t happened like this, but the situation is not good, because the missiles are very strong. It’s a problem. It’s very difficult, that’s why we’re coming to sleep here."
11.Various of people laying on mattresses and gathering at metro station
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sonia Shraibman, resident:
“That’s the first night that we will spend here, because actually we’re not sleeping, because of the anxiety and because of the sirens that are happening during the nights, it’s very scary to run every time to the shelter, there was a morning I fell down on the street while running to the shelter, so yes, I decided that better to stay you know during the night try to sleep, and to have a rest a little bit here in a safe space.”
13. People carrying mattresses
14. Person standing and talking to others while they’re on mattress
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Aziza Melech, resident:
“We need to survive, and I think I have never felt something like this, that’s why we decided to go to sleep here to feel that I will be safe during the night, that I can sleep.“
15. Melech and Shraibman on their phones, sitting on mattress
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Aziza Melech, resident:
“I understand that now I can think about something that is not war. I can think about my work, I can think about, I don’t know, friendship, about relationship, about something that is my life, because during the day when I am outside, I can’t feel myself safe at home.“
17. More of people at underground station
STORYLINE:
When Israel’s sparkling new light rail system opened less than two years ago, few could have imagined that hundreds of people would use the underground stations as makeshift shelters, sleeping multiple nights in the brightly-lit stations to hide from Iranian missiles.
But over the past few nights, families with young kids, foreign workers, and young professionals have brought mattresses and sleeping bags, snacks and pets into the train station, fluffed their pillows and settled in for the night.
In one station on the border of Tel Aviv and the city of Ramat Gan, around 200 people gathered just after sunset. Some brought tablets loaded with movies and homemade popcorn.
Families claimed corners for themselves, snuggling up with dogs and introducing themselves to their temporary neighbors.
Many elderly people with difficulty moving quickly arrived, with family members or aides.
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