The response to the new wave of bombings by Israel, now led by the United States, on Iran, was not long in coming this Sunday: around 7:30 local time (4:30 GMT) the air raid sirens woke millions of Israelis to the arrival of a new barrage of Iranian missiles that would hit several points in the country.

“This “It was my house until about four hours ago,” Shahar Keinan, 42, told EFE. Behind him, all that remains is a tangle of rubble and a swarm of soldiers searching the area trying to rescue the belongings of the residents of the neighborhood, north of Tel Aviv.

Like every night, in what has become routine for him and his family, the air raid sirens made them run to the bunker in the neighboring building until everything passed, but "this time everything was, obviously, completely different."

"We heard the explosions here and there when they occurred near our house, but this time it was, obviously, completely different. Everything started to collapse," he says, not without relief since neither he nor his wife and children, aged 11, 8, and 3, suffered a scratch.

His condition surprises those who go to him: the building under which the shelter is located has been completely destroyed.

Books hang from the rooms, now without walls and visible to any passerby and toys, and on the floor in the impact area, the pages of a girl's notebook full of drawings can be seen.

Up to 50 neighbors gathered at the shelter, police spokesman Dean Elsdunne explains to EFE, something that according to him explains the low number of injured: 20, most of them slightly, in the area around the building.

Both emphasize that the catastrophe in the area could have been worse, since not far from the impact area there was a nursing home that had been evacuated just four days earlier.

The Israeli Army raises so far to 22 the number of people who were directly injured by the attacks.

Among the rest, the majority suffered anxiety attacks or fell when they were going to the shelters.

Both Keinan and her neighbors have become part of the more than 9,000 displaced people in Israel after their homes were affected by attacks from Iran since the Israeli government launched a wave of bombings against the Islamic Republic on June 13.

Since the start of the war, some missiles launched from Iran have managed to hit strategic infrastructure in Israel. However, Israeli military censorship prevents specifying, citing security reasons, how many or which places were affected.

Uncertainty after the entry of the US into the war

This Sunday's attack has become the first in a new phase of the war in the Middle East, marked by the entry of the United States into the conflict.

The spokesperson for the Israeli Army, Effie Defrin, informed the press this morning that the United States attack during the night against the Islamic republic had been coordinated with Israel.

There the death toll now exceeds 430 according to official figures. The US-based Iranian organization Hrana puts the number at more than 800. Iranian retaliation has so far killed 24 people in Israel.

The morning passed calmly in Tel Aviv, which, after the first wave of attacks in a war that now includes the United States, is trying to live normally while the country exchanges bombings with an "enemy" more than 2,000 kilometers away.

For others, like Rabbi Levi Mendelson, that normality was interrupted two weeks ago when the Army called him up as a reserve soldier to join the rescue teams currently combing the affected areas.

"You see the massive damage here and no one was seriously injured, and this is thanks to the miracles we see from God," he says, while his companions, visibly religious due to the curls hanging beneath their helmets, call him to continue searching through the rubble.