Sign up here to receive on-the-ground coverage of the most important stories and a handpicked selection of our best world news coverage.This season, some of our favorite outerwear styles seem to have something in common-they don’t have sleeves! Yes, you can find sleeveless jacket silhouettes in a handful of timeless fall styles, from trench coats to puffers, padded, and tailored wool jackets. This story first appeared in Dispatches, our twice-weekly newsletter full of exclusive reporting from our correspondents around the world. A rocket from Gaza had fallen next to a supermarket nearby, filling the streets with the pungent smell of burning plastic. When the interview was over, we stepped outside only to see black smoke rising behind the car park. “We’re managing,” Mr Lobel insisted after he said he was turning down offers of help from doctors and nurses abroad. With a ground invasion of Gaza in the works, the Barzilai is bracing for an influx of wounded. The hospital treated 200 people in two hours on Saturday night, Mr Lobel said twice as many as it had planned for in its worst-case mass casualty scenario. When I asked him where he was living at the moment, he replied “here” and pointed to the cot with hospital-issued sheets that my colleague was sitting on. The massacre’s survivors were evacuated, and Mr Lobel promptly reported to work. He, his wife and daughter were unscathed, unlike a neighbour who was shot dead in front of his children. The army reached his house in Netiv HaAsara 13 hours after the Hamas attack began. On Saturday morning, he was one of several hundred Israelis whose villages were overrun by Hamas terrorists. The 73-year-old doctor is both a first responder and a survivor. Ron Lobel, a thin, elderly man with a white beard, has an improvised office in one of the rooms there as he assumed the responsibilities of director of emergency and disaster management 24 hours after the attack. A soldier sat on a plastic chair at the entrance of the passage leading to a children’s unit where windows and walls were gutted out by a rocket hit the day before.Īir raid sirens wailed three times in less than an hour, sending my team running away along with anyone else from the hospital’s sun-lit terrace to the reinforced hallway of an intensive care unit. Less than a mile away, Ashkelon’s top hospital is treating a growing number of patients, both civilian and military, and dealing with its own trauma.Ī passage near the Barzilai hospital’s emergency unit on Wednesday was sealed off with a security tape. If it’s just rockets – you go and take shelter in a safe room but when you have gunmen running in the street who can kidnap you and slaughter the kids… This is really scary.” ![]() “I’ve lived in this country for 23 years and have never been that scared in my entire life,” said Denis Leschinsky, in whose hotel 21 out of 46 rooms have been damaged by rocket fire. The Regina Goren’s director, who called me to say my car was intact under the luscious palm trees, could not hide the overwhelming sense of fear spreading among Israelis, who were once so confident of its army’s ability to defend them. Neither Tatyana, nor anyone else in the hotel, was hurt when a Hamas rocket hit a car park just outside the balconies at the back of the hotel.
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