For many people in southern Israel, Wednesday afternoon was a time of terror.
At 2:46 PM, a Code Red siren (announcing an impending rocket fall) went off accidentally in the South of Israel. People in the Gaza Belt and Eshkol regions dove for their bomb shelters, although it turned out to be a false alarm. If it had been a real rocket incident, residents of the Gaza Belt region may have as little as 15 seconds to make it to a shelter.