A Letter From Israel

Shrinkwrapped has an email that was sent from Israel by a friend of his oldest son. Life under the Hezbollah blitz is not at all pleasant.

Well folks I don't know what story the media is telling in America, but it is raining rockets here!!!  Followed by retaliatory Israeli Air force strikes that sounds similar to thunder except it lasts about 2 minutes.  I have been attempting to send an email for 2 days now; however I am continually interrupted by the Air Raid sirens followed by barrages of missiles/rockets. 

The fighting has been going on for about a week in the North now, and the attacks are getting longer and more frequent.  At least 3-5 times a day for the past few days we are startled to death by the air raid sirens warning us of an imminent attack.  Just to give you a hint of how loud the sirens are- if you put your ear next to a police siren, multiply that by a million.  From my Kibbutz we can hear the sirens going off in Haifa (9kms away).  From the second we here the siren, we have about 1 minute before the rocket hits and to get in the bunkers.  When you first get into a bunker a third of the people are in shock, a third are hysterical and another third are searching for a way to deal with it….

Go over and read the whole thing. It's worth the time.