1/23/2024 0 Comments Saver room![]() ![]() Israel's ferocious counter-attacks against Hamas have leveled entire buildings in Gaza, reducing portions of the Palestinian territory to rubble. Richard Hech of the Israel Defense Forces said the Israeli military has one goal in mind as it bombards targets in Gaza: "To control the entire enclave and kill all the terrorists in our territory." In a Sunday statement formally declaring war against Hamas, Lt. "People in Gaza do not have safe rooms or shelters," Tahani Mustafa, senior Palestine analyst at International Crisis Group told Insider, adding that the "only shelters they have are UNRWA schools that are currently holding more than 200,000 displaced people," referring to temporary shelters developed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. Gideon Harari, deputy head of the first responders and emergency team, speaks during a media tour inside a shelter equipped with emergency supplies and kids' toys in Moshav Shear Yashuv in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon on August 2, 2023. They often have steel doors with reinforced locks, thick walls of concrete and, if there are windows, they're made of shatter-proof glass. Residents of Israel said that, inside, the safe rooms are often just like an extension of the home, sometimes appointed like a living room or bedroom, while others are more sparsely furnished. ![]() The regulations required the inclusion of a residential protected room, a communal protected space, or an institutional protected space in every newly constructed building. It's commonplace for homes in Israel to have a specially-built safe room inside to shelter in place after a law was introduced in 1992 by the Israel Defense Forces' Home Front Command, establishing new civil defense regulations. Air raid sirens warning of rocket attacks blare without warning at all hours, giving Israelis just 60 seconds to find shelter. Residents all over Israel are making use of emergency shelters in their homes and public spaces as the war between Israel and the militant group Hamas escalates. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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