Outdoors within the open, the darkish sky was streaked with gentle trails from the east, amid the growth of blasts echoing over the Holy Metropolis.
In a shelter in Musrara district in west Jerusalem, residents referred to as associates and kinfolk elsewhere in Israel to change information of what was occurring.
One man who most well-liked to not be recognized by identify advised AFP: “We will put issues into perspective, however the youngsters cannot.”
He gave out sweets to younger ones within the automobile park, “so they do not have dangerous reminiscences” of the state of affairs.
Kids had been crying, nonetheless, and households continued to reach amid the wave of alerts.
Some even expressed shock as they’d not heard of the menace, regardless of repeated warnings broadcast by the authorities for greater than an hour.