Posted on 10/09/2023 5:05:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A former NBA player competing in Israel recounted the past 72 hours being in the country as Hamas militants launched an unprecedented attack over the weekend.
Dusty Hannahs, a former member of the Memphis Grizzlies who also played in the NBA G League, had made his Israel League debut on Friday night for the Ironi Ness Ziona and woke up the next day to sirens going off as Hamas began launching missiles from the Gaza Strip.
The Arkansas native said during an interview on Sirus XM Radio that it took him a moment to realize what was happening and then he started to hear “big booms” — presumably from the Iron Dome defense system shooting down terrorist rockets. “It’s pretty insane, but you can still feel the shaking of the impact in the sky, especially if it gets low” Hannahs said. “I could kind of feel my room shake, so I ran to the bomb shelter on my floor. As a kid from Arkansas, it was all pretty foreign to me. The room was shaking and it kind of just went on all day.”
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I heard a story that a married couple heard the Hamas thugs were approaching and put their two tiny children in a hiding place, successfully saving their lives in the murder sweep of their street. Chilling times.
Welcome to the religion of peace - rockets 🚀 from Ragheads
Did the general manager tell each of them to go on their own to the airport and get out of the city?
I can’t imagine what it is like to live in Israel. I once saw a clip of Big Brother from years ago where they had to go to the bomb shelter during filming. Just another day in Israel.
For quite a while, it seemed like a good place to visit…..I have a couple friends who just returned 3 weeks ago….
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