Three hours after the bodies of the four women from the Khatib family who were killed overnight into Sunday were extricated, sirens were heard once again in Tamra, like everywhere in Israel, in the wake of firing from Iran. When the siren was heard, dozens of members of the rescue services who were still working at the site were called to leave the ruins and find shelter. One of the residents of the street offered his safe room. His house was damaged in the deadly barrage three hours earlier, and the Home Front staff came to examine whether the room was intact. Given some doubt over its condition, the rescuers decided to stay in another safe room in the neighborhood – the fourth offered to them. "This is a neighborhood with relatively new houses and every house has a safe room, but what about the older houses?" wondered a neighborhood resident in frustration, referring to the fact that over 50 percent of the city's residents have no safe room or accessible shelter near their home. "Tamra has no public shelters, and all that's left are a few mobile shelters from the period of the war in Lebanon," he explained. The Khatib family home after the Iranian air strike in Tamra, Sunday.Credit: Gil EliyahuMayor Musa Abu Rumi added that the town opened all the public buildings with shelters, such as schools and community centers, only on Saturday, hours before the disaster. "We also have 20 mobile shelters left in the city from the war on the northern front, but even 100 won't suffice – this is a city with 37,000 residents," he said. During the second wave of missiles, Wissam Hassan, who lives two houses away from the Khatib family, was standing at the entrance to his home and watching the launchings of the missile interceptors with concern. Although the sirens had yet to be activated, he decided this time to be particularly careful. Fragments from interceptors could fall on us; it's better to go into the safe room," he said. "There has never been such tremendous destruction from missiles in Tamra and its surroundings," he added as he disappeared into the safe room.In photos: Destruction in Tel Aviv and Tehran in wake of Israel-Iran escalation'Our home was totally destroyed': Israelis recount devastation after Iranian missile hitsOnce again, Bedouins in Israel are left without shelters from Iranian missilesFrom left: Manar Hatib, Shada Hatib, Manar Hatib and Hala Hatib.Meanwhile, one of the rescuers, who was a guest in a safe room adjacent to the home that was hit, looked restless and waited impatiently for the moment he could leave the protected space. "We still haven't been able to tie up the loose ends," he said with concern. "It's amazing, the entire house was destroyed, but the safe room remained intact. I don't know if they had time to enter it or not, because there's a lot of destruction at the site and it's hard to decipher what exactly happened there." When permission was granted to leave the protected spaces, the rescuers rushed back to the scene. Shattered pieces of glass and items that flew out of the nearby houses due to the shock wave were scattered on the road. At the end of the street, you could see the iron gate of the Khatib family home, which flew dozens of meters. The house itself was dark and was illuminated only by the spotlights of the rescue vehicles. The rays of light exposed the extent of the damage. Two families lived in that house, which until a moment beforehand, had still been standing. One belonged to attorney Raja Khatib, who lived there with his wife and three daughters; the other to his brother, attorney Ihab Khatib, who lived there with his wife and son. At the time of the disaster, Ihab and his son weren't home.Rescue workers at the scene of the Iranian missile strike, Saturday night.Credit: Daniel RoliderThe body of his wife, Manar, was extricated from the ruins during the night. Also removed from the scene were the bodies of her daughter Shada, 20, and sister-in-law, Manar Khatib, 41, and toward morning, the body of another daughter, Hala, only 13 years old. "Raja entered the house exactly when the missile fell, but he was on the ground floor so he was saved and wasn't hurt," the mayor said. "His middle daughter, Razan, 16, was also saved because she managed to enter the safe room on the ground floor. It's a new house built entirely of concrete, but it sustained a direct hit from a ballistic missile weighing 400 kilograms (880 pounds), according to the Home Front estimate. So the women and the girls who didn't enter the safe room were killed." The scene of the air strike in Tamra, Sunday.Credit: Rami ShllushIn an interview on Channel 12 News, Raja said that he, his wife and the girls had returned two days earlier from a one-week trip to Italy. "I took the three of them as though I wanted to bid them farewell," he said. "It's a shame I didn't stay one day longer. Had I done so, they would have canceled their flights, I would have stayed there and they would've been saved." He said that Shada was an outstanding law student and wanted to be an attorney like him. "She was an amazing girl," he said. "I'm sorry that a few days ago when there were sirens, her mother called and said 'Shada, come to us, stay with us.' She has an apartment in Haifa, she came here to her death. What can I say? It's from God; it's all written. I hope the four will meet in paradise." Raja also said that the son of Manar, his sister-in-law who was killed, is studying medicine in Romania and are waiting for him to come to Israel so they can bury her. "It's hard," he said. "I hope he'll make it, that he'll see his mother." He added that many people are coming to console him over his losses. The scene of the air strike in Tamra, Saturday.Credit: Daniel RoliderThe destroyed Hatib family home in Tamra, Sunday.Credit: Rami Shllush"They're like flowers. When will we finish with all these wars?" he wondered. "They start with Gaza, continue to Lebanon, continue to Syria, to Iran. Where will they continue? It's hard for me. I don't know how to get through it. I hope for the best, that this whole nightmare will end and that this accursed war will end and nobody will be hurt." Mayor Abu Rumi added: "This is one of our city's best families; two lawyers married to two teachers. The oldest daughter, Shada, followed in her father's footsteps and was studying law at university. It's a good family, well known, very respected and beloved in the community." The impact was so great that it was even felt two streets away, in the home of Hussein Mawasi. "I was with my wife, my children and my grandchildren and there was a siren," he said. "We entered the safe room, and then we heard a very loud boom. When we came out, we were in shock at the tremendous destruction and the number of ambulances and policemen. My granddaughter still hasn't been able to calm down. She's still crying."