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Shrapnel Tears Through Bnei Brak Apartments, 12 Unhurt After Siren

Relatives say moving to the stairwell in a building without a safe room likely saved their lives.

Overview

  • The strike hit around 4:35 p.m. on Donolo Street in Bnei Brak, with shrapnel penetrating from the roof through the fourth floor into the third.
  • The two damaged homes belong to the Gombo and Luria families, and relatives said the group recited Tehillim in the stairwell during the alert.
  • Rabbi Tzvi (Hershel) Gombo, head of a kollel at the Makowa synagogue, was among those sheltering and later recited the HaGomel blessing at Mincha.
  • Twelve family members escaped injury, but the apartments sustained extensive destruction after the fragment tore through both floors.
  • VINnews placed the incident within a wider round of missile attacks it reports left one person dead and about 20 injured, with accounts relying on family and local community sources.