Clarissa Ward visits Palestinian village in Israel where Iranian rocket struck a home
In a small, tight-knit town near Haifa in northern Israel, residents here never thought they would experience such horror.
Inhabited by Palestinian citizens of Israel, Tamra was left shaken after an Iranian missile struck a residential building late Saturday evening, killing four civilians, Israel’s national emergency service Magen David Adom reported.
The rocket struck a home belonging to the Khatib family, according to emergency responders. Manar Khatib, a local teacher, and her two daughters, Shatha, 13, and Hala, 20, as well as their relative Manar Diab, were all killed instantly.
Manar’s husband Raja and their youngest daughter Razan both survived.
The morning after, the mood in the Lower Galilee town was somber, compounded by anger over a lack of adequate bomb shelters, an issue that Palestinian citizens of Israel have long warned was a glaring inequality that exists throughout their communities.
Only 40% of Tamra’s 37,000 residents have either a safe room or a functioning shelter, the town’s mayor Musa Abu Rumi told CNN. And there are no bunkers or public shelters which are otherwise ubiquitous across most Israeli towns and cities.
Read more about CNN’s reporting on this disparity.
