The reaction of a group of Argentinians who were having a barbecue on a terrace in Tel Aviv before Hezbollah’s missile attack on Israel

A group of Argentinians prepared to roast on a terrace In Tel Aviv and I observed how Hezbollah missiles they were intercepted by Israeli air defense systems, the famous ones Iron dome. The scene, both everyday and Dante-esque, was captured on video: the guests, far from being scared, decided to take the situation calmly and even with a bit of humour.

Single armchairs, a couple of chairs and a table with a couple of bottles of wine They decorated the terrace of a palace one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the country. On one of the walls of the balcony, which appeared to be on a high floor, a backpack and even a crutch appeared.

The Israeli night was clear at the time of the video the community was celebrating the holiday of Simchat Torahin which passages from the Torah, the Jewish holy book, are read and danced. A joyful celebration in the Jewish tradition.

For these four Argentinesthe appearance of the missiles was not a cause for concern, fear or urgency to go to the shelters, even if in the background sirens could be heard ask citizens to go to air raid shelters.

Indeed, the terrorist group Hezbollahoperating from Lebanon, launched four missiles towards Tel Aviv and central Israel. There are no reports of injuries, the Israeli army announced. But the flashes were recorded in the videos of the barbecue, sharp edges when gluing the protective dome.

The images were released online by journalist Daniel Lerer and the sequence lasts 43 seconds. At the beginning, one of the diners at the barbecue showed up sitting on an armchair, with his feet resting on another chair and dressed in shorts and a sweatshirt, film the sky. A splint covers his right knee, perhaps due to an injury in the area.

“Where am I, idiot?”an Argentinian asked. Who then seemed to feel restless and was in a hurry to seek refuge. “No, let’s go, let’s go, let’s go,” he said. Another, in a blue and orange sports jacket, crossed and approached at the edge of the balcony with emptiness.

“The iron dome, idiot”, the dialogues of the Argentines during a barbecue, before the Hezbollah attack in Tel Aviv

The person who recorded the video, one of the four friends who met for dinner, expressed his opinion reluctance to abandon the ritual The Argentine moved to the Middle East. “We’re not going down 8 floors now,” he was heard to say.

“You have to resist for ten minutes”replied the young man in the blue and orange sweatshirt, who a few seconds later asked himself: “E Who controls the roast??

The phone, which recorded the incident, panned from side to side looking for where the missiles would appear coming from Lebanon. The sirens continued incessantly.

“Of course!”, claimed another who already seemed convinced to let the possible aerial threat pass by to concentrate on the Creole banquet.

Ahead of them, in another building, the Argentines saw other people watching the sky lit belligerently by the rockets. “I wait, there are some too“We’re all on the front balcony,” said another, as if he felt supported and legitimized in his decision not to go down to the shelter.

Moments later, one of the diners spotted one of the missiles in the Israeli sky. “There, there, there’s one there, look“he said emphatically.

Below the first missile, another appeared, identified in the video as two bright orange dots above the buildings. A few seconds later they spotted the third and one of the young men asked himself: “What are we going to do anyway?” Another, fascinated, said: “Look how beautiful you are, idiot.”

To which they replied: “The Iron Dome, you idiot”. It is also sometimes known as Iron Dome and is a mobile Israeli air defense system.

It fires surface-to-air missiles to intercept short-range rockets, aircraft and other missiles launched from 4 to 70 kilometers away.

“Um, be careful,” one of the friends exclaims, but always in a relaxed tone, confident that their lives were not in danger. They laughed, watched the explosions in the sky and continued chatting amicably until the end of filming.

Then, Hezbollah announced that it had launched a rocket against a “military industrial site on the outskirts of Tel Aviv”, in central Israel, and which “hit the target precisely”. Israel has also attacked the Lebanese territories in what has been one of its battle fronts since last October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked a community in southern Israel.