By Josephine Franks on STUFF…
For Tanya Levy, the starting point of the Israel-Hamas conflict came at her daughters’ tennis lesson.
The siren indicating they had 90 seconds to find shelter before a possible missile hit sounded while they were in the middle of the courts.
Levy, a “born and bred Aucklander” who moved to Israel 20 years ago, compares her reaction to the siren to how residents of Wellington or Christchurch respond to the first signs of a quake.
“You just switch into business mode,” she said.
That meant finding the closest bomb shelter – in her case, in the nearby basketball court building.
The 11 days of conflict that followed were marked by the same constant “mapping out”, she said. Every journey was dictated by where the next shelter might be.
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