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'Sirens mean we have 30 seconds to get to shelter'

A GUERNSEY student caught up in the conflict in Gaza has just 30 seconds to get to a bomb shelter if an air raid sounds, he has said as he spoke of the terror surrounding the city.

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Matthew Richardson, 20, was just a few miles away from where a rocket hit Israel on Friday.

The King's College London theology student, who is currently studying biblical archaeology in Israel at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, said he had now been briefed on what to do if an air raid sounded.

But while arrangements are in place for him to get to a shelter where he sleeps, there is no safe area for him to go to at his current dig site.

'Today we were briefed on what to do if the air raid sirens sound, meaning we have 30 seconds to run to our bomb shelter,' said Mr Richardson.

'What worries me the most is when we're at the dig site there is no bomb shelter so we've been instructed that if the sirens go off to lie flat in a ditch and cover our heads.'

Mr Richardson is currently on placement in Sde Yoav, which he said was about 30 miles from the Gaza Strip.

He has been there for three weeks and will be there for another two.

The atmosphere there was quite eerie, he said.

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