Israelis describe being gripped by fear after Iranian attacks cause widespread destruction in Tel Aviv and elsewhere

By Lubna Masarwa Published date: 14 June 2025 17:12 BST

Still, fires and plumes of smoke could be seen in several areas of Tel Aviv, while explosions were also reported in Jerusalem.

Images and videos verified by Middle East Eye showed apartment blocks in Tel Aviv’s suburbs and the nearby city of Ramat Gan almost completely destroyed and the wreckage of several vehicles among the debris.

  • electric_nan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    12 days ago

    All the suffering and death that Israel has caused for decades, is purely the result of its insulation from consequences. If Israel had to face any real resistance to its behavior, it would be forced to negotiate in good faith like a normal country.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Not quite the same as massacring starving people who can’t fight back, is it?

    I mean, fuck the mullahs, but how often has Iran invaded any other country in the past century? I believe that number is zero. Compare that to Israel’s assaults on its neighbors and the massive civilian casualties that those assaults caused.

    And who was the idiot who abrogated the US nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Iran? Oh yeah, it was Trump in his first term.

  • evenglow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    a 67-year-old Israeli living in central Israel, told MEE that after initially supporting the strikes against Iran, reality quickly hit home that Israel was vulnerable and that Israelis, just like Iranians, could also be targeted.

    “The attack surprised me,” Yafa-Niger said.

  • Maeve@kbin.earth
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    13 days ago

    "The Israeli public has been convinced over the years that it can exist here in the region while deeply disdaining all its neighbours and rampaging in a thuggish and murderous manner against everyone - whenever and however it wants - relying solely on brute force. “That’s why there was something so substantial about the sight of the bombed-out buildings in Ramat Gan,” he said. "They are so similar to the images we’re used to seeing from Gaza. Those sooty grey skeletons of buildings, that billowing cloud of dust, that carpet of ash and rubble covering the street, those images of children’s dolls in the hands of rescue teams. “The scale is, of course, completely different, but these images are nevertheless a momentary rupture of this disturbed fantasy that we are immune to everything,” he added.

    United States citizens should take note. We never seem to appreciate the consequences of our actions, at home or abroad, until they return to us. The people in the global South, the East, Middle -East–people around the world-- are humans like us, with struggles, sorrows, dreams and aspirations. We need to shake the boot off our necks, then lift it off our neighbors ’ necks.