“We can suffer to help the Iranian people,” a reservist whose home was damaged by an Iranian missile fragment told The Jerusalem Post on Saturday.
The reservist, Oren Addar, recounted how he had been planning to head to base for duty when sirens blared. After taking his elderly parents, sister and cats to the shelter, he heard loud bangs outside his home.
“We were in the shelter, four of us in our basement where the shelter is, and we heard a bang, a really huge boom, and we went out [of the shelter] and [started] smelling all the smoke that came around into our house,” he recounted. “We examined our house when it was safe and found a lot of windows on the side of the houseare just broken. We went outside, and we saw the missile in the road.”
As the missile hit the ground, fragmented pieces of metal were broken off and launched into his home, burning holes into the ceiling and smashing his windows.
Oren Addar explained that police were able to quickly respond to his house as they had received reports of a similar impact only streets away from him in central Israel.
'We can suffer to help Iranian people get rid of this regime'
“We are freezing here because of the broken glasses and everything,” he shared, admitting he was worried about leaving his family to deal with the fallout as he reports for duty.
Despite the feelings of anxiety, Oren Addar told the Post that the damage was worth it if it meant helping the Iranian people. “We can suffer to help the Iranian people to get rid of this regime, this terrorist regime,” he asserted.
During the 12-Day War in June, Oren Addar had been responsible for unburying those trapped in buildings collapsed by the regime, occasionally finding survivors but most of the time finding more victims of the regime’s targeting of civilians. Even exposed to the realities of what a war with Iran means, Oren Addar maintained it was worth the sacrifice.
“We are strengthening the hand of the President of the United States of America and leading the fight against this horror,” he continued. “We are really taking care about the sovereignty of the people in Iran, and we are willing to [make this] sacrifice and [accept this] damage for there to be peace in this region.”