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PBS News Hour - Segments

Israelis take shelter as Iran and Hezbollah launch attacks: 'Here, the wars don't end'

PBS News Hour - Segments

PBS NewsHour

News, Daily News

4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Since its joint attack with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel has come under fire from Iran and its proxy in Lebanon, Hezbollah. It has rattled a country still reeling from the Oct. 7 attacks. Producer Karl Bostic in Tel Aviv spoke with Israelis amid the bombardment, and Nick Schifrin tells us their stories. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Well, since its joint attack with the U.S. on Saturday, Israel has faced a wave of drone and

0:06.1

missile attacks from Iran and has also come under fire from Iranian proxy Hezbollah in Lebanon.

0:12.1

Producer Carl Bostick spoke with Israelis in Tel Aviv today, and Nick Schiffrin brings us

0:16.7

their stories.

0:17.7

Today in Tel Aviv, Shakedza Evivi and her daughter's neighborhood park is no longer a safe

0:23.9

haven.

0:24.9

Just behind them, their apartment, windows blackened and gutted by an Iranian missile.

0:30.9

Our house got hit, the windows in the kids' room fell.

0:35.0

Today is the first day that she and one and a half year old Gaia had returned since

0:38.8

last weekend's attack.

0:40.6

So she hugged her daughter just a little tighter.

0:43.5

It's really sad.

0:45.3

Really sad.

0:46.3

I don't know what we're going to do.

0:49.7

Iran has fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel. The deadly fireworks and the sirens are constant.

0:59.0

Toddlers understand and inherit their parents' fear,

1:03.0

so Zevi tried to turn her daughter's frown upside down.

1:07.0

So every time there is a siren going on, she would start repeating it. Wee-wee-wee-wee-wee-wee-wee- repeating it. We're trying to do it at home with smiles and musical kind of way, so she won't be scared.

1:18.6

So we would run to the shelter, shelter laughing and singing, trying to make it more, not as scary.

1:26.6

Gaia at one and a half years old knows when it's time to go to the shelter.

1:32.3

The city is filled with broken windows.

1:35.3

Some cleaned up by 18-year-old Israeli-American Ron Schifroni.

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