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I Pranay Upadhyay, reporting from Bet Shemaish in Israel for India Today, can tell you the situation on the ground remains extremely tense as the conflict continues to expand across multiple fronts.
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00:00I'm currently in Eshteyol, a small settlement in Beit Shemesh region of Israel.
00:06And behind me, you can see the two-impact site of an Iranian missile strike.
00:11You can see the big vehicles here, and you can also see the smashed cars.
00:16You know, dozens of cars got smashed, and you can see the radius of impact of those missiles which hit
00:21this area.
00:22And that purple was the impact that you can see that the houses and the roofs are shattered.
00:27You know, this house, the roofs are shattered.
00:30The entire house is in rubbles now, and you can see the emergency response teams have rushed to this place.
00:36Around seven people are set to be injured at this very site.
00:40And we are trying to document it, and we are trying to show you that how this war, this conflict,
00:45despite all those things, all those assurances of dialogue, diplomacy is not dying down.
00:50There is no sign of de-escalation.
00:52Repeated alerts and sirens are blaring in the region.
00:56And you can see the depth of this crater.
00:59And the nearby structure got entirely smashed.
01:03The local authorities are trying to document the impact site.
01:07The drones are being used.
01:08The buckles are being used to get and collect all pieces of that missile piece or the fragment which impacted
01:16here.
01:16And you can very well see that, you know, despite interception, those missiles carrying warheads of over 100 kilogram landed
01:23in this region.
01:24And even after the interception, those cluster ammunition, which are being used by the Iranian forces, are causing this kind
01:32of damage in the region.
01:33And let me show you what exactly is the radius of this entire impact site.
01:38And you can see, this is the impact site here.
01:41In fact, it is a small settlement.
01:45There, you know, people have their houses there.
01:47And here, there are many plants with roots out here.
01:53And you can see how the plants are here.
01:59And the roots are also scattered here.
02:01These are all tree-bearing plants.
02:03And you can see that entire lawn is now filled with raven and these stones.
02:09How heavy these stones are.
02:11And let me show you, this entire boundary wall, it used to be a bit high here, entire boundary wall
02:17got smashed.
02:18And you can see these stones and impact.
02:21Let me show you, how big was the impact here.
02:25The stones and the founders.
02:27Well, as far as this, you know, at least, at least three meters away, you can see this big boulder,
02:36this, such a big boulder, it's very difficult to move even such a big boulder, which actually, you know, with
02:43the impact of that missile has blown to this distance.
02:47And you can very well see the impact here that the window pans got completely smashed.
02:52You can see the entire area is in shadows.
02:56As you can see, this house, how powerful was the impact of this site.
03:01In fact, let me also show you, not only the window pans, but the powerful door also got unhinged here.
03:11And here you can see, in the entire, stuff has been moved out of the roof now.
03:18People have been rescued.
03:19And you can see how this car works now.
03:23This is many meters away from the impact site and crater, but such a powerful impact of that missile's right
03:32here.
03:32And you can see how this air conditioner unit is completely broken here.
03:40Let me also show you that with this iron door, this powerful iron door, how it got unhinged, that entire,
03:50you know, that its entire structure is broken now.
03:56And this is the condition of this house, which got impacted.
04:01Let me show you.
04:03The stuff of a young guy might be, you know, this is his house.
04:09And you can see, you know, that stuff is scattered here.
04:15Toys are also scattered.
04:24So powerful was the impact that roads, roads are broken and entire structure got shattered of this house.
04:36And this remains the reality of this combat zone, this battlefield and this conflict zone that many houses are getting
04:45destroyed, many places, many people are losing their lives as well.
04:50And despite 28 days of this conflict, this conflict is still on, houses are being broken, lives are, and this
04:58conflict is taking many lives.
05:01Tanayupadhyay reporting from Eshtiwal, Bet Shemesh for India Today.
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