in Hod Hasharon, many houses were damaged during the Iranian attack

Many homes were damaged in this town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv during the Iranian missile attack on Tuesday evening.

The missile completely destroyed a municipal building in the heart of Hod Hasharon’s downtown park. “I’m a little shaken, but it’s okay, we’re finesays Rachel who lives right next door. It’s just property damage.” In his house, his windows are broken. “One of them even exploded”she says. His roof partially collapsed into his attic. The floor gave way in his bedroom.

Nearly 200 missiles were launched from Iran in response to the deaths of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said. There were some injuries in Israel and a Palestinian died in the West Bank. In Hod Hasharon, a missile fell causing significant damage. In total, around a hundred houses were damaged in this town on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

This city of 70,000 inhabitants has already experienced falling projectiles in the past, intercepted in the sky, explains mayor Amir Kochavi: “But that’s another scale. The explosion blew over a wide area. It could have caused more damage, but fortunately the residents were disciplined and went to the shelters.” In total, there were five injured, some people were evacuated from their homes. Municipal teams are very mobilized.

“It’s the holidays this evening and people are very afraid of not being able to return home. So we are doing emergency work with municipal agents.”

Amir Kochavi, mayor of Hod Hasharon

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A construction company is assessing the damage in one of the particularly affected schools. It is impossible to know how long repairs will take.

The army does not communicate on the number of missiles intercepted Tuesday evening, but faced with the damage, the population is not particularly resigned. Maya hopes for a response from Israel to Iranian attacks. “I think that as the name of the Israeli operation says, it is time to restore order once and for allexplains Maya. Western countries need to understand that this is not just Israel’s problem. We are dealing with extremists, fanatics, and we must cut the evil at the root.” She leaves with her two sons in a damaged city center, but which came back to life on Wednesday morning.