Hava Berger Vail reveals how her mother survived an Iran missile strike

Hava Berger Vail has spoken about how her 78-year-old mother survived after an Iranian missile struck her Israeli apartment. Watch the video.

Hava Berger Vail steps carefully over the rubble inside her mother’s home that has pieces of shattered glass scattered everywhere, the ceiling caved in, windows missing and possessions thrown around and laying upside down.

Her 78-year-old mother Nily Vail’s apartment in the affluent suburb of Ramat Aviv is a scene of destruction and she’s in shock.

Just hours earlier a missile attack from Iran destroyed many apartments and surrounding buildings next to Tel Aviv University hours after America’s attack destroyed three nuclear facilities in Iran.

Hava Berger Vail. Picture: Jordan Polevoy

Inside the rubble inside her mother's home.

As Ms Berger Vail takes News Corp through the six-year-old apartment her hands are visibly shaking – she steps in to view the chaos that remains inside the safe room that saved her mother as she hid with her Filipino carer.

Her mother couldn’t get out of the safe room after the Iranian missile strike hit about 7.30am on Sunday local time because the door was so badly damaged it wouldn’t open.

“I’m ok, we’re ok, we’re strong, we will be ok, we are a strong family,” Ms Berger Vail said.

An Israeli flag lies among debris at the site of an Iranian air strike in the Ramat Aviv neighbourhood Tel Aviv, Israel. Picture: Getty Images

“My mum, my grandfather have been in the Holocaust, so we are a strong family, it will be ok, we will build again and we will be here, our children and our grandchildren, everything will be fine”.

Volunteer Jonathan Nachmany, 18, from the Israeli volunteer organisation One Heart, was among the dozens of teenagers arriving at the scene of badly damaged buildings – including Ms Vail’s home – that have been destroyed by Iranian missile strikes.

A resident speaks to an emergency responder at the site of an Iranian air strike in the Ramat Aviv neighbourhood Tel Aviv, Israel. Picture: Getty Images

He arrived to help those who needed urgent assistance to safely gather their possessions and vacate their homes.

“I feel important whenever I go to these homes, I’ve been in 20 apartments like this today and every time it’s devastating to go in,” Mr Nachmany said.

“Iran is a terrorist country that only wants to hurt civilians and do damage to Israel, it’s amazing how much difference there is between Israel and Iran”.

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