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Yes, thank you, Patrick. I am just the southern part of Tel Aviv and Jaffa
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It's been a tense couple of days and a tense couple of hours
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It really started, I mean, earlier in the week there were missiles from Yemen
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but last night at about 3 a.m. interrupting the gay pride, the beginning of the gay pride celebrations
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was the sirens and alerts announcing the beginning of Operation Rising Lion
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We all know what's going on there. And to us, we've gone through the drills
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It's like something might be coming into Israel. But it seems now that that was a warning sign to tell the people of Israel
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that war with Iran had begun. And about most of the day has been tense, quiet
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Most shops closed, although some shops open relatively peaceful in Tel Aviv along the beach
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But about around sundown, there was the first warning alerts. And then there were two waves of missiles coming in
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Your reporter says up to 100. We've heard up to 200. with up to seven hits
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When you can see behind me, this is the skyline of downtown Tel Aviv to my north We saw the traces coming in from the southeast and it starts with a handful of them coming in quite slowly with it seemed like the Iron Dome missiles interrupted taking
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them down. But then there was a big barrage of them. And as the tracers, the orange tracers come
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at you, they start very slowly, and then they speed up. So then you get a real sense of
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I mean, it's a little terror, frankly. And that was the first wave
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Then every building in Israel across, then the whole country's going through the same thing right now
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has these safe bunker areas. So everyone goes to those areas. And then we're told, oh, we can relax a little bit
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We got out and we witnessed some of the second wave. Same thing again, alarms across the whole city
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And we've also heard across the whole country. and we see these orange traces coming towards us
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first slowly and then very rapidly. And again, at that point, we go down to our bunker
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So the mood here is pretty tense and we've been told to be on alert throughout the night
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I think that it's done at night intentionally to distress civilian population
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I don't think anyone will be sleeping or certainly not comfortably in Israel tonight and around here
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Winston, thank you very, very much. I really do hope that you stay safe. I appreciate you quite literally sticking your head above the parapet for us
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coming outside, showing us that backdrop there and telling us your experience of what happened there
