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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