Almost nothing has been done to protect residents in Sderot and elsewhere in the western Negev, and now the area is under siege without nearly enough reinforced shelters. Residents have few safe places to hunker down.
The Red Dawn rocket fire alert system gives western Negev residents in most cases less than a minute to make it into a bomb shelter before the missile hits.
The question is which bomb shelter?
Sderot is now under heavy attacks by Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza and there are not nearly enough shelters to run to. Few places are safe from the deadly rockets.
A video posted on the internet by the Sderot Media Center shows in stark detail exactly what kind of protection is available to those who are living on the firing line, with film of the state of the of the bomb shelters in Sderot and the surrounding areas.
The government, despite repeated promises by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to repair and upgrade the bomb shelters in the besieged city of Sderot, has done almost nothing.
Less than six months later after a “ceasefire” established by the Palestinian Authority terrorists on November 26, 2006, which the terror gangs have violated nearly 300 times already
The Olmert government has left southern Israeli towns defenseless and Gaza operatives in the driver’s seat.
The prime minister pulled all IDF troops out of Gaza, and PA terrorists violated the pact less than a day after it was signed. Almost 300 missiles have slammed into southern Israel since then, but the government has done nothing to carry out promises made by the prime minister in January to fortify Sderot homes and provide adequate bomb shelters.
Kadima MK Slams Its Chairman, Gaydamak Vows to Help Again
Knesset Member Shai Hermesh, a member of the Prime ‘s Kadima party, told Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday morning that the government has reached only the stage of carrying out a survey of the needs of Sderot, which it will do on Thursday. MK Hermesh noted that Sderot residents have often been ordered to enter bomb shelters that do not exist.
Russian-born business tycoon Arkadi Gaydamak, meanwhile, told Voice of Israel that he will fund a program to take the children of Sderot out of town, similar to a project he financed for the city’s traumatized residents during the Second Lebanon War. He also said he might fund construction and improvement of the city’s bomb shelters.
The Israeli billionaire has been a target for politicians who charge him with using his generosity to buy future votes for his new political party. Mr. Gaydamak staged events to help refugees from northern communities battered by Hizbullah-sent Katyusha rocket fire during last summer’s war in addition to projects to aid the Jewish refugees from the 2005 Disengagement.
The Red Dawn rocket fire alert system gives western Negev residents in most cases less than a minute to make it into a bomb shelter before the missile hits.
The question is which bomb shelter?
Sderot is now under heavy attacks by Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza and there are not nearly enough shelters to run to. Few places are safe from the deadly rockets.
A video posted on the internet by the Sderot Media Center shows in stark detail exactly what kind of protection is available to those who are living on the firing line, with film of the state of the of the bomb shelters in Sderot and the surrounding areas.
The government, despite repeated promises by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to repair and upgrade the bomb shelters in the besieged city of Sderot, has done almost nothing.
Less than six months later after a “ceasefire” established by the Palestinian Authority terrorists on November 26, 2006, which the terror gangs have violated nearly 300 times already
The Olmert government has left southern Israeli towns defenseless and Gaza operatives in the driver’s seat.
The prime minister pulled all IDF troops out of Gaza, and PA terrorists violated the pact less than a day after it was signed. Almost 300 missiles have slammed into southern Israel since then, but the government has done nothing to carry out promises made by the prime minister in January to fortify Sderot homes and provide adequate bomb shelters.
Kadima MK Slams Its Chairman, Gaydamak Vows to Help Again
Knesset Member Shai Hermesh, a member of the Prime ‘s Kadima party, told Voice of Israel government radio Wednesday morning that the government has reached only the stage of carrying out a survey of the needs of Sderot, which it will do on Thursday. MK Hermesh noted that Sderot residents have often been ordered to enter bomb shelters that do not exist.
Russian-born business tycoon Arkadi Gaydamak, meanwhile, told Voice of Israel that he will fund a program to take the children of Sderot out of town, similar to a project he financed for the city’s traumatized residents during the Second Lebanon War. He also said he might fund construction and improvement of the city’s bomb shelters.
The Israeli billionaire has been a target for politicians who charge him with using his generosity to buy future votes for his new political party. Mr. Gaydamak staged events to help refugees from northern communities battered by Hizbullah-sent Katyusha rocket fire during last summer’s war in addition to projects to aid the Jewish refugees from the 2005 Disengagement.