An American basketball player currently competing in Israel has captured the harrowing moment she struggled to locate a nearby safe room as Iranian missiles streaked through the sky.
Destiny Littleton, a former college basketball star from the University of South Carolina, now playing professionally in Jerusalem, shared a gripping video documenting her urgent search for safety amidst the blaring of warning sirens.
“I’m not sure if you all can hear this, but a siren is blaring right now,” she remarked in the footage. “This is the second siren of the day. I’m heading to the shelter… It feels eerily deserted. I’m making my way to the shelter as we speak.”
In her video, Littleton pans the camera to show the cityscape and then captures what seems to be a missile trail cutting through the sky above.
“Can you see that? What is that? Things have been flying through the air, but the clouds are obscuring my view. Look at those trails over there,” she exclaimed. “I think that might be… oh my goodness.”
Subsequent footage reveals Littleton searching for a blue door, a marker indicating the entrance to her closest safe room, where she can take cover.
Destiny Littleton, an American basketball player in Israel, was looking for shelter as Iranian missiles were fired at Jerusalem
At one stage, explosions can be heard as Littleton struggled to find where her shelter was
‘I’m currently walking to the safe room, definitely heard three or four b-o-m-b noises. Trying to stay calm,’ she said.
The video then resumes with more sirens going off and Littleton struggling to work out where she should go for safety.
‘There go the sirens again. I’m trying to find this safe room but I can’t find it,’ she says, sounding panicked. ‘I don’t think this is the right way, I don’t see a blue gate at all. The sirens are just getting louder and louder.’
Eventually, Littleton found the place she needed to be but as she filmed herself walking down the steps, a loud explosion is heard.
‘Oh s***,’ she says. ‘Oh s***. Where is it? Did you hear that? Oh f*** me.’
In a following video, Littleton then said she was going back to her home to pack her belongings and join a teammate at a house that had a bigger bomb shelter.
‘I’m a lot more comfortable there,’ she said. ‘That b-o-m-b shelter I was in could just fit five people, that was it.
‘Everything is quiet right now. We are safe and sound and just trying to get as much information as possible. I am just trying to stay calm.’
Iran has fired missiles at Israel in retlatiation for being targeted in an attack on Saturday
She later wrote on X that she was safe and that it sounded as if the explosions were slowing.
‘Update: it’s currently 10pm and we have been siren free and boom sound free for the last couple of hours. I’m praying it continues this way,’ she wrote.
She later added: ‘It’s 12:48 am and I’m going to attempt to get some sleep. Prayers for safety for everyone impacted.’
Littleton is playing overseas after not being picked by a WNBA team in the 2023 Draft.
Speaking in January about her life overseas, she said: ‘To not be drafted, it was really hurtful, I didn’t expect it. I felt I had done enough to make it.
‘When that didn’t happen, I had to change course. This is how I am going to continue to grow as a player and as a person.’
Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei died in an attack on his Tehran compound
Iran has been retaliating on Saturday after American and Israeli attacks were launched, killing the Iranian Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in the capital of Tehran.
President Trump confirmed his death on Saturday on Truth Social and added that attacks on Iran would continue in a bid to enforce regime change.
‘The heavy and pinpoint bombing, however, will continue, uninterrupted throughout the week or, as long as necessary to achieve our objective,’ he said.
