For Mor Buzaglo, life has been a blur since her home in Beit Shemesh was heavily damaged by a ballistic missile from Iran last Sunday.

“Our house was severely damaged in the attack,” Buzaglo recalled. “The ceiling collapsed on top of my daughter and me, and it was only by a miracle that we are alive. The windows shattered, the light fixtures fell, and everything was broken on the floor. And that was it.”

Buzaglo and her daughter were taken to the hospital for treatment, and they were later reunited with her husband and two other children at her in-laws’ home before being sent to the Leonardo Plaza Hotel in Jerusalem.

Now, she and her family are sheltering alongside hundreds of other evacuees from the city after an Iranian missile strike killed nine people and injured about 65 on the second day of the joint US-Israel strike on the Islamic Republic.

About 300 evacuees are staying at the hotel, which is part of the Fattal Hotels Group, said Ortal Noah Moalem, CEO of Fattal Hotels in Jerusalem. Many will likely stay there until their homes are rebuilt, said a Justice Ministry representative.

In the luxury hotel’s lobby on Sunday afternoon, children in pajamas played games next to piles of suitcases, while teams of volunteers, social workers and government officials sat at tables offering help.

Many of the evacuees were experiencing anxiety attacks and other forms of emotional distress, and most did not know where they would live in the immediate future, said a social worker from the Beit Shemesh welfare department who requested that her name not be used. Family members of the nine people killed in the attack had been moved elsewhere, she noted.

Towards the back of the hotel lobby, signs directed people to municipal advisors, medical services and insurance advisors to inform them of their rights. Many of the guests were previously sent to a different hotel in Jerusalem and........

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