Dramatic video shows the moment an Israeli civilian was knocked to the ground Monday by a powerful explosion yards away — before calmly getting up and walking off.
The unidentified woman, 34, had just gotten out of her car when the suspected Iranian cluster munition landed right behind her in the airstrike in the city of Petah Tikva, 6 miles east of Tel Aviv, reported Haaretz.
“It was a boom. I realized it was close,” nearby resident Merav told the Israeli outlet. “I left the safe room, and all the windows in the apartment were shattered.”
The woman in the video got out of her vehicle when the munition first partly exploded, as advised by the Israeli Home Front Command’s security guidelines. She did not have time to jump down on the ground before it fully exploded.
She was miraculously not killed despite the close impact but suffered serious wounds to her chest from shrapnel.
She was evacuated to a nearby hospital, where her condition was upgraded from serious to moderate-to-serious.
Pictures showing her car with shattered windows were also shared online.
A second explosion also hit the city of 260,000, less than 200 yards from Monday’s strike.
“We’re completely under fire,” a resident said.
At least five waves of missiles were launched from Iran toward Israel on Monday, according to the Israeli military.
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The bodies of four people were pulled from the rubble of an apartment building in Haifa, a day after an Iranian missile struck it Sunday.
The four fatalities — two men and two women — belonged to the same family, according to the Israeli military.
A total of 20 Israelis have been killed, including four minors, by Iranian missile fire since the start of the conflict on Feb. 28.
The attacks come less than two weeks after Iran launched a fresh wave of missiles at Israel, boasting that it would “remove any hope” of continuing US-led negotiations to end the conflict.
