‘That massacre was unbelievable’: B.C. woman home after being trapped in Israel
Global News
"That massacre was unbelievable," she said. "Unbelievable. And as a woman, I don't need to tell you the fear that I have for people who were taken."
A Vancouver woman has recently returned from Israel after being caught up in its violent and deadly conflict with Hamas.
Jean Gerber and a friend spent days in bomb shelters and ended up scrambling to get a flight home.
She told Global News she spent last Friday afternoon shopping, and after eating dinner, the two read some books and went to bed, “assuming that in the morning, we would wake up to a Jerusalem that is still quiet because everything is closed.” Friday sunset to Saturday sunrise is a period of rest called Shabbat in Judaism.
But at 6:30 a.m., Gerber said they heard the first sirens going off.
“I knew that was a bad sign.”
They spent the next two days going in and out of the apartment building’s refuge room every time a siren went off.
Then they started hearing planes and missiles and were glued to TV news coverage.
“By Monday, our kids had phoned and said, ‘You have to come out. You have to come home,'” Gerber said.
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