Israeli women's basketball teams flee game after Iranian missile strikes

A hoops crippled betwixt 2 Israeli women's teams was evacuated aft Iranian missiles struck the state Tuesday. 

Iran launched dozens of missiles against Israel successful a barrage of strikes it says are successful effect to the deaths of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders.

Hapoel Lev Jerusalem was playing Hapoel Kfar Saba successful the 2024-25 Preseason Winner Tournament astatine Malha Arena successful Jersualem erstwhile the attacks began, according to The Jerusalem Post. The explosions began successful the 2nd quarter, with Hapoel Lev up 20. Then sirens rang out, and the players and coaches fled to a adjacent weaponry shelter. There were nary reported casualties for either team. 

"It’s a brainsick concern and world that we are in," said seasoned Hapoel Lev subordinate Shir Tirosh. "It’s brainsick that we are inactive successful this world a twelvemonth later, and it’s pugnacious to statesman the caller play similar this. And it’s precise sad. There are sirens successful Jerusalem, sirens successful Tel Aviv, sirens successful the full country. It’s conscionable a brainsick reality. I deliberation that what is keeping maine level-headed is the information that I americium helping the foreigners connected the squad enactment calm, due to the fact that they are surely much tense than we are. I’m present to assistance them and enactment affirmative astir the concern that we are each in."

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Tracers from weapons are fired into the aerial successful solemnisation of Iran's rocket barrage connected Israel implicit Beirut, Lebanon, Oct. 1, 2024.  (Reuters/Louisa Gouliamaki)

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) warned citizens to structure successful spot and travel instructions from the Home Front Command arsenic the Jewish State's Iron Dome antimissile defence strategy works to intercept incoming rockets.

Tirosh added that she and her teammates person go much accustomed to preparing for attacks from overseas threats dating backmost to October 2023.

"The import players that are present are, for the astir part, calm and recognize what has been going on," she said. "When they arrived, they spoke to america that they weren’t that acrophobic to travel to Israel contempt the concern that the state has been in. 

"We person been speaking to them a batch astir what is going on. Last year, aft Oct. 7, erstwhile we weren’t truly prepared with however to woody with the situation, we had to enactment connected our instincts with the foreigners. So, present we are overmuch much prepared to grip that aspect. We are ever explaining to them what is going on."

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said this latest barrage of missiles is successful retaliation for the sidesplitting of Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah successful Beirut, Lebanon, successful an Israeli airstrike precocious past week and the sidesplitting of Hamas person Ismail Haniyeh successful Tehran successful July, according to Fox News Chief Foreign Correspondent Trey Yingst.

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Israel's Iron Dome antimissile strategy intercepts rockets, arsenic seen from Ashkelon, Israel, Oct. 1, 2024. (Reuters/Amir Cohen)

Iran's Revolutionary Guard warned successful a connection released by Iranian authorities media that if Israel responds to the rocket barrage, "it volition look crushing attacks."

At slightest six Israeli radical are already reported dormant from Tuesday's attacks during a shooting successful Tel Aviv. 

Tirosh's teammate, Zoe Wadoux, said the fearfulness of playing successful Jersualem has been a strain connected her and her family, but she wants them to cognize she is safe. 

"I made the determination during the summer, and astatine that moment, the warfare wasn’t that bad. And erstwhile I got here, it got worse. Obviously, it’s pugnacious connected my household and friends and each of the radical that emotion maine astatine location to cognize that I americium here. I tried to telephone them and scope retired to them mundane to accidental that I americium OK and that I americium safe. But with these types of events, that will, of course, worry. But I americium here, and I volition effort to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic I tin to beryllium harmless and fto them cognize that I americium safe."

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Residents of Jerusalem instrumentality structure during an Iranian rocket barrage Oct. 1, 2024. (Credit Yoav Dudkevitch/TPS-IL)

Jewish American leaders connected Tuesday day reacted to Iran's unprecedented rocket onslaught against Israel, saying the Islamist authorities volition pay. 

"The United States stands with its lone antiauthoritarian state successful the Middle East, Israel, arsenic it defends itself and its radical against evil," Ohio Republican Rep. Max Miller told Fox News Digital successful a statement. "Iran and its proxies indispensable halt threatening the world."

In a Sept. 30 statement, Miller said, "Israel's efforts to dismantle Hezbollah are making the satellite a safer place."

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