A group of rescue cats used up one of their nine lives after a missile landed yards away from their sanctuary and failed to explode.<br /><br />Chachi's Haven, near Tel Mond in the Sharon Region of Israel, has been helping more than 500 street felines during the conflict and been attacked several times.<br /><br />The cat shelter survived another near miss on Monday (14/10) after a missile was intercepted before landing in a field just next door to the facility.<br /><br />Video footage shows the smoking projectile unexploded with its fins dislodged nearby following the lucky escape. <br /><br />Founder of the shelter Gail Joss, 65, said: "During the third attack in the afternoon, I was sure I heard a high-pitched whizzing sound go past our back door.<br /><br />"It turns out that one of the missiles was intercepted right above us.<br /><br />"It landed in the field next door.<br /><br />"The security forces were out there securing it because it could still explode.<br /><br />"So, maybe we were lucky, but it doesn't feel like it."<br /><br />It was reported that the Israeli military claimed the projectiles were fired from Lebanon.<br /><br />This latest attack comes off the back of a significant incursion by Iran on October 1 when around 200 missiles were fired in two waves into Israel.<br /><br />One person was killed and several injured in the launches which Tehran said were a response to the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and others. <br /><br />Gail said that during the October 1 attack, the earth shook around her and the cats as missiles thudded nearby.<br /><br />Ready-made bomb shelters are too expensive said Gail and also impractical due to the large number of cats at the shelter, so Chachi's Haven does not have one.<br /><br />When under attack - the cats have resorted to comforting each other by rubbing their heads together.
