Israel - Hamas War: Israelis panic while Iranians celebrate

MEXICO CITY.- First the sirens sounded: in Jerusalem, in Jericho, in the Negev region. Afterwards, the missile rain. And the aerial explosions, proof that the Iron Domethe advanced Israel defense systemhe was doing his job.

He unprecedented attack by Iran He forced the population to take refuge in the basements, fearful that, amid the hail of aerial fire, one would overwhelm Israel’s defense.

A wounded man, officially, after the Iranian fury that more than damaged, hurt national pride by reaching the heart of the country.

The sirens sounded loud, but the population tried to remain calm. After more than six months of war in Gaza, they are used to living under alert. In Tel Aviv, even, the bars opened their doors and seemed full.

A university student told the British BBC that it is “a normal night in Tel Aviv.”

Party in Iran

While the Israelis locked themselves in, in Iran they celebrated. Groups of people took to the streets in Tehran and other cities, chanting “Death to Israel” and “Death to the United States.”

An Iranian cleric shouts slogans during an anti-Israel protest in Palestine Square in Tehran, Iran Credit: AP Photo/Vahid Salemi

Videos posted on social networks showed dozens of people in Tehran’s Palestine Square, waving the flag of Iran and the Revolutionary Guard, which organized the offensive against Israel in retaliation for the attack, on April 1, on the Iranian Consulate in Damascus, which killed seven of its own. A “reparation of honor” that threatens to spill conflict… and blood.

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