(20 Jun 2025)
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Ramat Gan, Israel – 18 June 2025
1.Various of people laying on mattresses and gathering at metro station
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sonia Shraibman, resident: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT3 AND PARTIALLY BY SHOT4++
“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.”
3. Various of people on mattresses
4. Various of people inside metro station
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Aziza Melech, resident: ++SOUNDBITE STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND IS OVERLAID BY SHOT6++
“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.“
6. People coming down escalator to underground metro station seeking shelter
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.
As Aziza Melech, 34, sat on her inflatable mattress with her best friend, she said she felt her body relax for the first time in days.
It was their first night sleeping in the train station, on the lowest level possible, and she finally felt safe. The next few hours, at least, she wouldn’t need to run to a safe location during the sirens.
“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,” said her friend Sonia Shraibmen.
That morning, Shraibmen fell on the street while running to a nearby shelter, and decided to move somewhere where she wouldn’t have to get up and run each time her phone blared.
The conflict between Israel and Iran began on June 13.
Iranian strikes have killed 24 people and injured hundreds in Israel.
Israeli strikes on Iran have killed at least 639 people and wounded 1,329 others, a human rights group said Thursday.
The Washington-based group Human Rights Activists offered the figures, which covers the entirety of Iran. It said of those dead, it identified 263 civilians and 154 security force personnel being killed.
Missiles have struck 40 different sites, including apartment buildings, offices, a hospital, and other sites in Israel, according to Israeli authorities.
Aside from the death toll, the strikes have caused heavy damage, and air raid sirens have repeatedly forced Israelis to run for shelter.
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