RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A Triangle native is speaking about the growing unrest in the Middle East and Iran.
Robin, who didn’t want to share her last name due to safety concerns, told Eyewitness News she was just miles away from a deadly missile strike near her Israeli town.
She graduated from Enloe High School and then UNC before moving to Israel in 2008.
Robin said she hunkered down with her three kids in their apartment’s safe room as Beit Shemesh was being attacked. The town sits halfway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
The ballistic missile killed at least nine people and wounded dozens more, according to ABC News.
Many, like Robin, are alarmed about what the days ahead may bring.
“We’ve just been in anticipation of Iran happening, and now it’s happened. And the fear, the terror, the emotional toll it takes on kids not seeing their friends – parents being home with kids, trying to work, running to the safe room, knowing there are hits in other cities or even in your city – the emotional toll is the same,” Robin said.
Several people are still unaccounted for in the wake of the attacks in Beit Shemesh.
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