This is how the last chapter of the war in the Middle East is experienced

In the seventeen days of the current conflict in the Middle East between Israel and the United States against Iran, Israelis live with uneven levels of these emotions.

Some believe that, faced with Tehran’s apparent arms minority, the ayatollahs’ regime is betting on a “war of attrition”: night and early morning bombings that get entire cities of residents out of bed every two hours, who, poorly asleep, spent seven hours a day – with intervals – in anti-missile shelters.

On the other hand, when the attacks cause damage that the Israeli defense system cannot stop – the Iron Dome intercepts missiles but does not always manage to prevent cluster bombs or shrapnel from falling – a repair operation is immediately activated that tends to minimize material damage. To prevent people from being stuck in the pain of loss.

Groups of young volunteers They enter homes to help families gather glass from smashed windows, carry debris, and remove unrecoverable appliances. Or whatever it takes.

“We are boys and girls of 16, 17 and 18 years old. We are always in emergencies. We come to collaborate,” he points out to Clarion Nadav Daniel, a high school senior.

Resilience doesn’t stop. There is no room for regret.

“This war is like that. We had to fight it”says a neighbor from Rishon Leziyyon, a city eight kilometers south of Tel Aviv, while vacuuming the sofa. The explosion of glass caused by the cluster bomb that fell under his window spread a blanket of splinters over the living room of his first-floor apartment.

“Even though everything was destroyed, the Jews will never leave, the Jews will remain here. “We have promised God,” he assured. Clarion Joseph Cohen, a 29-year-old rabbi who lost his home in an Iranian attack. It happened when the apartment building on Rehov Yehuda Halevi Street in Tel Aviv, where Cohen lived with his wife and three young children, was the target of the first Iranian missile that managed to avoid Israel’s protective shield.

And when the bombs fall on public roads, In less than an hour, there are almost no traces of what happened. Cranes with shovels remove the debris, cleaning machines tidy up the area and super-expeditious workers place fences or fill projectile craters with material.

Another variant of the feelings that cross a society cornered by war It is distrust. As happened when an Iranian bomb fell on a construction site in Yehud-Monosson, near Ben Gurion airport, killing two workers.

His colleagues, enraged with the national and international press that covered the news, stood in front of the cameras and recorded the journalists with their cell phones, threatening that they would call the police.

“If you show images of what happened, “The Iranians will know where they attacked and will continue to do so.”shouted, a nervous wreck, a worker with a motorcycle helmet that he never took off so as not to be recognized.

“People are very stressed,” he admits to Clarion Miguel Glastein, an Argentine doctor at the Ichilov Hospital in central Tel Aviv.

“We have been with this war for three years and there is a very important trauma -he emphasizes-. As a toxicologist, I see an increase in suicide attempts by drugs, by drugs.”

This Monday the schools reopened, after two weeks closed due to crossfire. But less than half of the students attended class, lament from the Israeli Ministry of Education.

Of the 365,000 students living in areas where schools have shelters to protect them from attacks by Iran and Hezbollah, only 47 percent returned to the classroom.

This Monday, ten towns across the country suffered damage caused by missile debris intercepted or by cluster munitions, seven of which fell in Rishon Lezion. They also hit Route 431, in Lod and in Shoham. In addition, five Iranian missiles caused damage in the north, center and south of Jerusalem.

From Israel, the Defense Forces assured that they launched massive attacks against Iran. According to official sources, they destroyed the private jet of Ali Khamenei, the supreme religious leader – assassinated on the first day of clashes, on February 28 – and a space research center.