The Miracles Keep on Happening

The other day there was (yet another) barrage of missiles in our immediate vicinity - by vicinity I mean within a range of 150-200feet.

Two of the rockets fell behind our building into the wadi behind our building. The missiles that fall into the wadis and in the surrounding forresthave caused an ecological disaster. The forestry in Tzfat has been set back 50 years. The fires they set pose a constant threat to the lives of fire fighters who rush from one blaze to another. But that was not the worst of it.

I heard that another missile fell somewhere on the other, front, side of the building complex. I live in the middle building of a three-building complex. One rocket has already fallen in front of one of the building next to mine. It fell in the middle of the road, exploded and caused a car that was parked next to it to explode sympathetically.

This time the rocket fell near the building on the other side of me. It fell near where the gas tanks that supply the building are situated - but it didn't blow up. It just fell.

Had it exploded and the ball bearings packed within it scattered there is every chance that the gas tanks would have blown up along with it and that the fireball would have traveled through the system of gas pipes leading into every apartment in that building. The building would have been gone - and perhaps ours too. The gas tanks in our building would have ignited and exploded in turn, taking the third of the buildings with it. Each of the buildings houses 90 families.

Doreen Ellen Bell-Dotan, Tzfat, Israel
DoreenDotan@gmail.com