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Israel Defense Forces IDF Home Front Command Exercise Turning Point 4
By
Joel Leyden Jerusalem
---- May 24, 2010 …. Part of the following briefing on the
Israel Defense Forces IDF Home Front Command Training Exercise
Turning Point 4 was provided to the Israel News Agency
by the Israel Defense Forces. IDF Col. Dr.
Soffer said that Israel was now starting a national civil defense
drill. Col. Soffer was asked if he was just referring to acts of terrorism and or acts of war taking place in northern Israel, or also about the south of Israel. "I'm
talking about all kinds of attacks on Israel civilians. It doesn't
matter what the source of the missile is, every civilian has a
predefined time to go into the shelter. If they hear an air raid
siren, they must go inside the shelter. We don't have peace with
terror organizations in the Gaza Strip, so we must be prepared
for a missile attack from the south, just as from the north. "For
everyone in Israel, since 1992, it is a mandatory regulation that
when you build a house you have to build it with a private shelter-
a protective room inside a room. It is one of the conclusions
reached after the Gulf War in 1991. Approximately 30-35% of buildings
in Israel have a Mamad- a protective room. Another 30% or so have
either a public shelter or a private shelter in the bottom of
the building. The rest, 20-25%, don't have a regular protective
shelter. We teach the public to choose the best solution they
have in their building. For example, if they live on the top floor
of their building, they have to go into the stairway one floor
down and that is their protective area. If they are outside the
building and don’t have enough time to go inside a shelter
or building they have to lay down on the ground and that is the
best solution that we can provide for them. "If you're
in a building you have to choose the interior room and will protect
you. Not the best protection, but good protection. "I really
can't answer your question. It's an Israel civil defense drill,
not an offensive drill. I only heard from the media that Lebanon
and Syria are afraid of this exercise. You can understand that
it's a civil defense drill, just to protect and prepare our population
in Israel. I would like to add something- most countries prepare
their population for all the disasters. In America and many other
countries in Europe they prepare the public for earthquakes and
other natural disasters because they're afraid of those threats.
But I'm afraid that other than natural disasters, we have threats
from Lebanon and the Gaza Strip." "Most of those killed during the 2nd Israel Lebanon War were killed in open spaces. Ninety percent were killed in open areas, ten percent were killed inside, but none were killed in their protection spaces." As part of the IDF exercise, IDF OC Home Front Command Maj.-Gen. Yair Golan informed Vilna’i of his decision to complete the draft of all IDF Home Front Command reservists after close to 200 rockets and missiles, included ones with chemical warheads launched from Syria, landed in the center of the country. Under the IDF exercise, most of the missiles from Iran and Syria were landing in the Gush Dan region in the center of the country. Israel Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu used the opening of the cabinet meeting Sunday to send a public message to Syria that the IDF Home Front exercise was a routine security event, and that Syria did not need to feel threatened by it. “This is the fourth year in which we are holding this IDF homefront exercise,” said Netanyahu. “I would like to make it clear that it is not the result of any exceptional security development. On the contrary, Israel wants calm, stability and peace.”
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