At least nine people, including five Ukrainian refugees, were killed in a missile strike on Bat Yam.
Tatyana Kurakova, who escaped the Russian invasion in 2022, lost her new home in Israel – it was destroyed in the Iranian attack on Bat Yam.
This story is told by the New York Post.
“It was like horror. I can't describe how big it was. I didn't understand how I managed to survive,” Kurakova, 40, told the New York Post, unable to hold back her tears.
The woman moved to Israel from Kyiv to escape the war. Rebuilding her life in her new place took two years, until Iran struck a southern suburb of Tel Aviv. One of the missiles hit a building next to her home.
According to Kurakova, among the nine dead are five Ukrainians who, like her, fled to Israel from the war in Ukraine. Dozens more people were injured, and hundreds of homes were damaged or destroyed.
“It's very painful. You never know if you're going to survive. That's why I left Ukraine – I thought it was all over,” she says.
At the moment of the explosion, Tatyana was at home. She recalls how she rushed to the second floor to have time to collect the most necessary things – documents, a suitcase.
“I thought that I needed to quickly take the documents and run away. I understood that this could only be the beginning.”
Let us recall that Ukrainians want to leave Israel and Iran en masse. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine is compiling evacuation lists of citizens who plan to leave Israel and Iran due to the worsening situation in the Middle East.
