DW correspondent Tania Krämer has spoken to people in West Jerusalem about the latest conflict between Israel and Iran, erupting just months after the last one in June 2025.
One man, Yonathan, spoke of feeling “pretty stressed.”
“I’ve been here during the last war with Iran, and it was a bit exhausting at a certain point. Just got to the shelter over and over again,” he said.
He said that while his mother was in favor of the war, he could not understand her point of view, and that he was “really against” it.
“I think it’s kind of useless, all of these rounds of Iran. Just Bibi [the nickname for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu] [trying] to keep himself in office,” he said.
Nicola, a female resident of West Jerusalem, said that “[a]ll we can do is stay out of the way and hope it ends as soon as possible.”
She said she supported “being able to live in peace.”
“And if we don’t sleep for a week, but the result is everybody gets peace and freedom, then yeah,” she said. “But it’s complicated.”