Hello, I'm Luke Jones. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service. This time in BBC OS

conversations, we bring together Israelis and Iranians to share their experiences. Israel launched its

Operation Rising Lion in the early

hours of the 13th of June, targeting Iranian nuclear and military sites, claiming its long-time

enemy was close to developing nuclear weapons. Iran denies this and says its nuclear technology

is for peaceful purposes. Its leadership promised severe punishment against Israel

before launching missile and drone attacks of their own.

Israel's Iron Dome Defence System prevented many of those from getting through.

That was more than a week ago,

and every day we've been reporting the damage and casualties on both sides.

As we record this on Friday, the two countries continue to attack each other,

and President Trump in the United States is still considering whether they will get directly involved.

Our first conversation is with two Israelis.

Israel and Iran have been enemies for decades.

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali-Khamenei has called Israel

a cancerous tumour that should be uprooted and destroyed, and Iran funds several groups which

oppose Israel's right to exist, including Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. My colleague

Mark Lowen spoke to David, a secondary school teacher in Jerusalem, and Meshi, an economics reporter living in the coastal city of Jaffa.

I actually grew up near the border with Lebanon, so my childhood, I experienced a lot of missiles throughout.

But this feels different. This is a lot more destructive. The damages, the fatalities are much greater.

It's a case of going to sleep and not knowing when you have to wake up again.

My mother and my brother and his family, they live in the center of the country.

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