'MIRACLE WE SURVIVED'

A shocked Julia Zilbergoltz said she had never experienced anything like the Iranian missile strike that hit her home in central Israel early on Sunday, as Israel and Iran traded bombardments for the third day.

- 

"I'm stressed and in shock. I’ve been through hard times in my life, but I've never been in a situation like this,” Zilbergoltz added, as she gathered her belongings and left her apartment building in Bat Yam, near the coastal city of Tel Aviv.

“I was at home, I was sleeping and I didn’t hear the siren” warning of an incoming missile attack, she said. She was awoken instead by the loud booms that followed.

According to Israeli officials, six people, including two children, were killed in the strike that destroyed Zilbergoltz’s home.

Yivgenya Dudka, whose home was also hit by the missile on the city of Bat Yam, said: “Everything was destroyed. There's nothing left. No house. That's it.”