wailed

Footage from the Israeli city of Ashkelon showed flashes in the sky as sirens wailed and an explosion at the bottom of a block of flats during the rocket attack on Sunday night.

"I wanted to come here desperately, I wanted to see my husband," wailed one woman, who gave her name as Naruemol, as her friend comforted her.

To the side, women wailed, beating their chests or throwing fistfuls of rice and rose petals.

I wailed through the phone to my mother.

“I’m not sure I’ve wept or wailed like that in several years,” he said.