Israeli mum reveals her family cheated death ‘by one second’ as Hezbollah rocket broke through roof of home in blitz

AN ISRAELI mum informed how her family cheated death “by one second” as a Hezbollah rocket thundered through the roof of their home.

Anava Nidam, 38, hurried her 4 kids right into a shelter and shut the metal door an immediate earlier than the missiles blasted through their home’s concrete room.

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The Nidam family narrowly missed death when a rocket hit their home this morning in Manot, Northern Israel close to the Lebanon borderCredit score: Dan Charity

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Image of the blitzed Nidam family home through the big wave of assaultsCredit score: Dan Charity

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Shrapnel burst an inflatable slide the place the Nidam family’s children have been enjoying shortly earlier than the blitzCredit score: Dan Charity

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A shrapnel from the rocket was discovered inside the homeCredit score: Dan Charity

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The broken patio contained in the Nidam family homeCredit score: Dan Charity

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Solar man Nick Parker reporting from Manot close to the Lebanon borderCredit score: Dan Charity

Shrapnel and flying glass showered into the constructing as the family screamed in terror however Anava and kids Shoham, 16, Hoshen, 15, Noa, 12, and eight-year-old Omer have been unharmed.

Anava moved into the home three miles from the Lebanese border from the village of Zarit, which is even nearer to the border whereas her husband Avihai, 43, was preventing in Gaza.

However she is now homeless once more and pleading to be moved additional south to flee the each day terror of the cross-border rocket assaults.

Cake decorator Anava informed The Solar: “I heard explosions in the distance so I rushed the children straight into the shelter and literally one second later, the rocket hit.

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“It blasted right through the concrete roof spraying glass and shrapnel everywhere but somehow, we survived.

“An inflatable paddling pool in the garden where the children had been playing hours earlier was torn to pieces and they were left screaming in terror.

“They were due to start back at school in September but that won’t happen now – Hezbollah must be pushed back because it’s impossible to live like this.

“The north of Israel has become a no-go area.”

Anava was being comforted by her mum Adva, 56, as the deafening growth of outgoing Israeli artillery hearth stuffed the air in Manot’s largely deserted streets.

Adva stated: “Even outgoing fire can be scary if you’re not used to it – if you hear a bang and a whoosh you know it’s ours and you’re safe.

Hezbollah may launch October 7-style attack on Israel any minute after air strikes as Israelis prepare for all-out-war

“But if you hear the whoosh first you know they’re trying to kill us and it’s terrifying – we can’t live here any more.”

The Solar’s staff arrived in Manot amid hovering stress and dived for canopy as an enormous bang erupted subsequent to the rocketed home.

However locals defined that the ear-splitting noise was outgoing hearth into Lebanon from a hidden artillery battery yards away.

They added ruefully that they have been experiencing the each day sights and sounds of their life subsequent to the intensifying struggle with Hezbollah.

HEZBOLLAH AGAINST ISRAEL

It comes as Hezbollah launched a barrage of missiles in the direction of Israel in a bid to avenge the killing of one of its founders and high commanders in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut final month.

The harmful Iran-backed terror group aimed to fireplace hundreds of rockets in the direction of the north and central Tel Aviv, Israel claims, however was solely capable of launch just a few hundred missiles after IDF strikes thwarted its plans.

Israeli jets obliterated hundreds of Hezbollah rocket launchers in “pre-emptive” strikes.

1000’s of launch tubes pointing in the direction of Israel, together with at southern Tel Aviv and the HQ of MI5 equal Mossad, have been destroyed.

Israeli Defence Pressure (IDF) chiefs ordered the blitz at round 4.30am native time after detecting preparations for a big assault from the Lebanon-based terror group.

IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari stated 100 fighter jets struck over 40 launch areas in southern Lebanon in an “act of self-defence”.

Its Iron Dome and David’s Sling air defences have been reported to have taken out all threats to populated areas and lots of projectiles landed harmlessly in open floor.

IDF spokesperson Nadav Shoshani stated: “This is part of a larger attack that was planned, and we were able to thwart a big part of it this morning.”

Israel estimates the group was capable of hearth solely 250 drones and missiles in the direction of the north with “very little” injury after the pre-emptive strikes.

Hezbollah claimed to have hit 11 Israeli army targets, whereas the IDF revealed a naval soldier was killed and two others have been injured in fight in northern Israel on Sunday.

Flights have been axed to and from Israel’s main Ben Gurion airport as the chaos unfolded – though they’ve since resumed.

Israel warned civilians close to Hezbollah launch websites to hunt shelter as the barrage received underway earlier than daybreak.

Terror group commanders are believed to have intentionally sited launchers subsequent to houses to make use of households as human shields towards air assaults.

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An explosion in Lebanon final night time as Israel launched airstrikes at Hezbollah targetsCredit score: Reuters

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A Hezbollah unmanned aerial automobile (UAV) crossing from Lebanon will get intercepted by an Israeli fighter jet close to the Lebanon-Israel borderCredit score: EPA

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An Israeli fighter jet ejects flares over an space close to the Lebanon-Israel border at the momentCredit score: EPA

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Hezbollah militants experience on a automobile carrying a Fajr 5 missile throughout an annual parade

Israel has engaged in tit-for-tat strikes with Hamas-allied Hezbollah for 10 months since struggle broke out in the Gaza Strip.

However yesterday’s assaults have been the largest escalation launched by the group since final yr’s October 7 assaults from Gaza and despatched tensions skyrocketing in Israel.

It threatens to set off an all-out struggle which may draw in the USA, Iran and militant teams throughout the area.

Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah swore the operation was solely “phase one” of its grasp plan to avenge the assassination of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut final month.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel’s pre-emptive strikes are “not the end”.

He stated: “Three weeks ago we eliminated his chief of staff, and today we foiled his attack plan. 

“Nasrallah in Beirut [Hezbollah leader] and Khamenei in Tehran [supreme leader of Iran] ought to know that that is one other step on the trail to altering the scenario in the north and returning our residents safely to their houses.

“And I repeat – this is not the end of the verse.”

The Solar warned solely days in the past that Hezbollah was planning to launch an enormous assault on Israel.

Analysts monitoring years of army exercise in southern Lebanon warned that October 7 may quickly look “like a picnic” if and when the terrorists determined to unleash hell.

Consultants informed The Solar how civilians in Lebanon may find yourself paying the worth for a recent struggle in the Center East – simply as tens of hundreds have in Gaza.

The Lebanon well being ministry has stated three individuals have been killed in the strikes fired from Israel in a single day.

They stated one was killed by an “Israeli drone strike on a car in the village of Khiam” and “the Israeli occupation attack on the village of Tiri” killed two.

The Amal group – an ally of Hezbollah – later stated a militant from Khiam had been killed.

It was not clear whether or not the opposite two have been civilians or militants.

Current tensions in the Center East

By Ellie Doughty, International Information Reporter

After virtually 10 months of struggle in Gaza, tensions hit an all new excessive following a collection of lethal strikes and high-profile assassinations by Israel in late July and early August.

On Saturday July 27, a rocket strike fired from southern Lebanon hit a soccer pitch in Golan Heights – a Druze village occupied by Israel – killing 12 younger individuals together with kids.

Israel and the US each stated Hezbollah, the biggest of Iran’s terror proxy teams, working out of Lebanon, was accountable for the lethal strike.

On Monday, July 28, the IDF dropped an airstrike on an space of Beirut, Lebanon’s capital, killing Hezbollah’s most senior army commander Fuad Shukr.

Lower than two days later, at round 2am on Wednesday, July 30, Israel killed Hamas’ high political chief Ismail Haniyeh as he slept in Iran’s capital Tehran.

On the morning of Thursday, August 1 morning, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) introduced {that a} strike on Khan Younis, southern Gaza, had killed Mohammed Deif on July 13.

Dief had labored as head of Hamas’ ruthless army wing, the al-Qassam brigades, since 2002.

It marked one other main loss for Iran’s terror proxy teams in the area.

Early studies urged Ismail Haniyeh was taken out in a precision strike when a rocket was fired from a drone exterior his window and detonated contained in the room.

Then an investigation by the New York Occasions urged a bomb had been planted in his room on the military-run compound the place he was staying and detonated remotely.

Unnamed Iranian officers additionally shared the explosive idea with The Telegraph, additional complicated the murky particulars round Haniyeh’s death.

The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), concluded its investigation into the humiliating safety breach on Saturday, August 1 and stated he died after a “short-range projectile” was fired from exterior the constructing.

Iran and its proxy teams; Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen all vowed to hunt revenge on Israel over the assassination of Haniyeh.

Then, on the night time of Saturday, August 3, Hezbollah fired some 30 rockets from Lebanon in the direction of Galilee in northern Israel.

Tel Aviv’s spectacular Iron Dome Defence system launched into motion, destroying “most” of the missiles and no one was harm.

However the UK, US and France have all urged their residents to evacuate from Lebanon as fears of a wider struggle breaking out in the area proceed to spiral.

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A constructing hit instantly by a rocket fired from Lebanon in a single dayCredit score: Rex

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An Israeli lady standing standing close to a shattered window in a constructing hit instantly by a Hezbollah rocketCredit score: Rex

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Hezbollah’s chief Hassan Nasrallah swore the assault was solely ‘section one’ of its grasp plan towards IsraelCredit score: Unpixs