TEL AVIV, Israel – Sirens wailed outside my hotel balcony.
A ballistic missile attack from Iran is imminent, but the current alert is different, more immediate and more dangerous.
Terrorist attack in Jaffa.
Details are still under wraps, but this is all we know. Several people have already lost their lives.
Hurry up and load your equipment and armor into the car. As we were about to leave the hotel, we received an order from New York telling us to go back inside. They don’t want us on the streets with an Iranian attack on the horizon.
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Before the producer could hang up, a new sound filled the car: the sound of an alarm blaring. Iran launched a ballistic missile heading straight for us.
It takes about 12 minutes for a missile to travel from Iran to Israel. No one knows how long these 12 minutes are going.
The driver/cameraman steps on the accelerator and weaves through the traffic as we return to the hotel.
We returned safely and joined about 20 other people in a hotel shelter. Many of them are Israeli. A father is playing with his two daughters, rolling around on the ground and laughing. Nearby, people are chatting peacefully, undeterred by the threat of nearly 200 ballistic missiles aimed at Israel. I noticed a young man standing quietly next to his girlfriend. Although he has lost his leg below the knee, he stands strong and calm.
When asked about his injuries, he replied, “Hamas terrorists.” “They hit us with RPGs.”
Nate Foy interviews an Israeli police spokesperson following the terrorist attack in the Tel Aviv area. (Nate Foy/Fox News)
He credits his and others’ calm during this attack to their confidence in Israel’s air defense system.
I’m broadcasting live on Fox News Channel from the shelter, reporting on what’s happening to those around me. As Israel’s multi-layered air defense system (comprised of Iron Dome, David Sling and Arrow systems) thwarts the incoming threat, it becomes clear why the soldiers’ confidence is so well built.
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Iran is launching the largest barrage of ballistic missiles in history. A Palestinian man was killed by falling debris in the West Bank, but no one in Israel was seriously injured by the missile.
I thought that the quietness of the shelter was born of a tragic familiarity. Getting shot at is common here.
Terrorist attacks occur frequently but rarely reach Tel Aviv.
Once cleared, we rush to the scene of the attack in Jaffa, as originally planned.
Evidence of the atrocity was everywhere along the light rail tracks, bloodstains and evidence markers hinting at the horrors that had unfolded just before we arrived.
Graphic photo warning: Bloody streets where two terrorists killed seven Israelis in the Tel Aviv area. (Nate Foy/Fox News)
“When the train stopped and the doors opened, the terrorists went inside and started firing automatic weapons, then they got out and continued their killing spree,” Israeli Police International Spokesperson Deen Elsdan told me.
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“I even saw footage of terrorists standing over civilians who had obviously already been shot and continuing to shoot,” he added.
Seven people lost their lives in this attack.
My mind flashes back to scenes I witnessed in Rafah, a devastated city in southern Gaza, 100 kilometers south of Tel Aviv.
Israeli armored vehicle in Rafah (IDF)
A few weeks ago, I was holed up with the Israeli Defense Forces in a evacuated city, where soldiers were engaged in a gunfight with militants.
There were not a single civilian in sight, but the remains of pre-war life were scattered everywhere. Children’s superhero masks, clothing and household items were buried under the rubble of an Israeli airstrike.
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Areas that were once inhabited have now become wastelands.
These are the costs of war.
Tens of thousands of people died.
Millions of people are evacuated.
And now, as the war enters its second year, the possibility of a major direct escalation with Iran looms on the horizon.
