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Things aren't really different enough to merit distinct play-by-play, but an ongoing report still gives a picture of what things are like here, so I think it's worth trying to cover as much as I can. It's presently 13:45. Tzippi and I just entered our safe room. Our ten-minute preliminary alert, which we thought had passed over our area, turned into an enter-the-room-now siren. We'd just finished lunch. The kibbutz kitchen/dining room is open only for taking food, and I'd returned from there with food both for us and for Phil and Debbie and Eitan who are apparently on their way back from visiting the north. Earlier in the morning Tzippi had gone to our kol-bo for some purchases. While I'm watching the ongoing report of the latest volley of missiles (we're still told to stay in our safe room) I'll try to catch things up a bit.
I crawled into bed at 01:30 last night after sending my previous report. I must have immediately fallen asleep because ten minutes later, when our phones rang with an additional alert, that woke me. We spent half an hour in the safe room before returning to bed. Would it have been better to have slept in the safe room? I don't have an answer for that. From 02:10 until the next siren at 06:10 we slept well. It turned out that that alert wasn't for us, but a half hour later, after another alert, we moved to the safe room and were there for about half an hour after which I crawled back into bed and slept until 08:50. For a change I woke up "naturally" - without the aid of a siren.
Shortly afterwards we did get a siren and spent some time in the safe room. I don't remember for how long but I think it was for a short while because at 10:10 we did so again. That time we stayed for quite a while, though it may have been because we didn't notice that we'd been told we could leave. Throughout my writing this we've been watching the news which again aren't only reports of intercepted missiles but also of damage and injury - which has only gotten worse. For the past half hour I've been trying to upload a tax form for my job at the college. It was easy, but then the system didn't want to accept my password and I finally had to report that things weren't working. Throughout that time the news continued to raise the casualty count to where it's now eight dead. I've already written that we had no reason to expect that there wouldn't be casualties. But that doesn't make the death and damage easier.
I'm attaching here an article by Avrum Burg that he sent out today via his Substack. Even when I agree with him there's something about him that rubs me wrong, but I think that this time he writes well. The link to his The Observer article from his Substack wasn't correct, and the article is paywalled, so I copied the whole thing out for sending.
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