Mothers give birth in refuge in hospital basement

1. Exterior of Zeev hospital near Safed
2. Pan of broken hospital windows
3. Wide shot of vehicle near hospital shot through broken window of hospital
4. Broken glass in hospital room
5. Doctor with a baby in hospital
6. Maternity ward in the hospital basement
7. Close-up of mother kissing her baby
8. Eti Anbar, the hospital's head nurse with a mother and her baby
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eti Anbar, Zeev hospital's head nurse:
"We heard the Katyusha (rocket) coming, we heard her falling, and then all the glass was broken. It was a very, very frightening moment for all of us. So we took the mothers, we called all the mothers and all the babies and we started to bring them down to the first level which is very, very protected, and it has no window to the outside."
10. Damage to wall, maternity ward in background
11. Various of mothers with babies
12. Tilt-down from balloons to parents with baby
13. Mother speaking on phone
14. Tilt-up from baby to father
15. Anbar with mother holding her baby
16. SOUNDBITE: (English): Eti Anbar, Zeev hospital's head nurse:
"The situation was so intense and they were running from one room to the protected room and some of them just got pain and they were premature coming to give birth."
(Question: "Are the babies healthy?")
"Oh, very good, they're okay. Everyone was born in time. They don't need any intensive care."
17. Various of mothers and babies in maternity ward

STORYLINE

A group of Israeli mothers and their newborn babies have been forced to take shelter in a hospital basement after the building was hit by Katyusha rockets on Monday.

The rockets struck the third floor of the Zeev hospital near the town of Safed in northern Israel.

"We heard the Katyusha (rockets) coming, we heard her falling, and then all the glass was broken. It was very, very frightening moment for all of us. So we took the mothers, we called all the mothers and all the babies and we started to bring them down to the first level which is very, very protected, and it has no window to the outside," Zeev hospital's head nurse, Eti Anbar said.

Only a handful of colourful balloons now decorate the white-painted windowless basement which is packed with mothers and their babies.

Anbar said some of the women gave birth prematurely after going into labour when the rockets struck.

But she said all mothers and babies were in good health.

"Everyone was born in time. They don't need any intensive care," she said.

Towns in northern Israel have been hit by several Hezbollah rocket attacks amid increasing violence between Israeli troops and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.


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