"There's a lot of fear' Tel Aviv suburb where gunmen killed seven moments before air raid

Debbie Kay, who lives in the seaside neighbourhood of Jaffa in Tel Aviv, was arguing with her teenage son on Tuesday evening.

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He wanted to go out to meet friends, while she was concerned about reports that Iran was about to launch ballistic missiles at Israel. If that happened he'd find a shelter, he told her.

"Suddenly someone called me and said, 'please stay home'," she recalled. "Something terrible has happened like five minutes from your house." Two men had opened fire on a busy tram in a knife and gun attack that left seven people dead, as well as the assailants. Minutes later, Iran launched the promised missile attack, sending Kay and her family scrambling into the safe room that is built into most flats in the neighbourhood's newer buildings for just that eventuality.

Millions of Israelis across the country took to bunkers to avoid the bombardment, in which Iran launched an estimated 180 missiles - the most unleashed in a single night against Israel since the 7 October attacks by Hamas and the beginning of the war in Gaza.