What was that ?

July 16 2006
Kiryat Schmona
Northern Israel

We finally wrapped and finished around 9am this morning after another all night shift. driving back to the hotel, towards the LEBANON BORDER because it is meant to be safer and closer. We found that a complete Israeli artillery unit had set up in the valley below the hotel.

Drifting off to sleep is no problem after working all night, clean and tucked up only to be woken after a few hours, again and again by the pounding of the shells being fired into Lebanon. Then you sense another noise not the same as the shell fire, only to realise that it must be the cleaners at the hotel and doors are slamming.

So it goes on and on, shell - shell - shell - door - shell - door - door - shell - shell

We got called early back to the live location to get things moving on to hear that four katysah rockets had landed near the hotel after we left, now that is not reassuring to say the least.

Then the last impression of the day was again not what I saw, but what I heard.

We were doing a live shot when the air raid siren went off - calling everyone to get to the bomb shelters.

Somedays it is what you hear and not what you see, a good day for radio.

Mal