Seen from Tel Aviv: “We lived in our bubble after which we abruptly woke as much as the struggle”

Israeli artist Vaan Nguyen, 41, lives in Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv. After the offensive launched on Saturday October 7 by Hamas in opposition to the Hebrew State, she provides her testimony to “l’Obs”: “We by no means would have imagined a terrorist assault of this magnitude. »

Monday October 9

This morning, there’s nonetheless rocket hearth. And the sirens screaming in my space. I have to go to work. I attempt to keep calm, regardless that after I open tv, radio or newspapers, I generally begin to cry.

We’re 5 women within the household and we at present stay with my dad and mom and two of my sisters in Jaffa, a suburb of Tel Aviv. The streets are empty. A lot of folks have been referred to as up by the military in current hours. There are only a few buses operating. There’s a scarcity of drivers as a result of many needed to return to their models. It’s simply been two days since

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