Ward on IDF Warnings: The Streets of Tel Aviv Are Completely Empty, You Could Hear a Pin Drop

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WARD: "So I guess about half an hour ago, Jessica, the IDF put out a warning, essentially telling people to make sure that they were able to be near a shelter. And then there was another warning saying that missile launches have been detected. Now, we haven‘t heard sirens or anything like that, but certainly the streets of Tel Aviv behind me now are completely empty. You could literally hear a pin drop. Everybody just getting to a place where they know a shelter is close by. Now we have no idea what exactly to expect, if anything, but the broader sense is that there will likely be more strikes, both from Iran coming over in the form of ballistic missiles, as we saw last night, and potentially as well, more Israeli strikes on Iran as well. We did see from a different vantage point what what looked possibly like either tracers or some kind of an intercept, although we couldn‘t hear any noise, so not clear if that was in the far distance. But certainly a state of very high alert here. And we‘re now approaching that those late night hours, if you will, which last night proved to be very active indeed throughout the day it was pretty quiet, which gave us an opportunity to actually go and visit the site where one of those missiles actually made impact in a city outside of Tel Aviv, a residential area. And the damage from that missile was pretty extraordinary, something that Israelis are certainly not used to seeing here in Israel. How many houses were completely destroyed. There was debris everywhere. Cars were crumpled up and sort of tossed down the street like Coke cans. And people were gathering at the police cordon, sort of craning their necks. Jessica, trying to get a better look at the scale of the damage because, as I said before, this is just not something that Israelis have seen on their own turf, so to speak. So everybody now waiting to see what comes next, whether we will get further alerts, whether they will hear those sirens, which are an indication that in 90s you should try to take shelter in, in your nearest possible shelter. And of course, we‘ll keep you posted as and when we hear more."