The anti-missile sirens sounded early this Monday at Tel Aviv Airport. Inside, thousands of passengers have been trapped with no way out, as Fran, affected Spanish. “We are scared; there is a bomb threat“They just took us all to the bunkers,” he says.

It is not easy to deal with the fear and panic of these explosions, although Spanish diplomatic personnel, dressed in vests, provide assistance on site. Dozens of flights are being canceled, a nightmare that also lives Christina: “We have been here since yesterday because three flights have been cancelled. We ask the Spanish authorities, the Government, whoever it may concern, to help usthat they send flights, because we believe that after the attacks they are going to cancel commercial flights.”

More than 7,000 Spaniards reside in Israel. The war has taken them by surprise, as he tells us Jesús, a Spaniard living in Tel Aviv: “I wouldn’t say I’m afraid, Obviously I am worried.” And many of them, now, can barely move from their homes, as he confesses. Luis Miguel: “I feel helpless in Israel, in the middle of a war and I don’t know how to get out. “Here where I live you can hear the noise of the missiles a lot.”

There are few, especially Spanish tourists, who have managed to leave Israel in the last few hours. Antonio Fernandez has done so via Turkey: “We are already in the hotel in Istanbul, safe after an intense and strange weekend. At night, at 8:00 p.m., the alarms began to ring. and we saw through the window how the missiles, lights and explosions came out.”.

This Monday a flight from Tel Aviv landed in Madrid. The passengers repeated the same message: “Speechless. There is tremendous tension.” They are collateral victims of the war between Israel and Hamas.