Haifa Residents Ordered To Stay Inside Shelters

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Haifa residents have been ordered to stay inside shelters amid continued Hezbollah rocket attacks.   CGTN’s Jonathan Regev reports.   #Iran #Israel #MiddleEast

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00:00This is Haifa, Israel's third largest city, home to its busiest seaport and the center

00:06of a metropolitan area of roughly one million people.

00:10As such, and located just 40 kilometers south of the Lebanon border, city authorities understand

00:17they are a clear target.

00:18Haifa is the biggest city in the north.

00:20We understand that it will be the main strategical point of Hezbollah to shoot over here.

00:27Our main purpose today is to prepare the citizens of the city a lot of explanation of what to

00:34do in case of emergency, in case of alarm.

00:37Hundreds of public shelters, such as this one, are scattered throughout the city.

00:41This is where people head once the siren sounds, warning of incoming rockets.

00:46The shelter opens automatically as soon as the siren is heard.

00:50The proximity to the border means the time to reach the shelter is short.

00:54We can see that the people in Haifa are listening and doing exactly what the home front command

01:01is asking them to do.

01:04We are making a lot of explanation about one minute that they have in case of the alarm

01:09and another ten minutes to stay in the shelters.

01:13These instructions and directives save lives, nothing short of that.

01:18It has been proved hundreds of times already, with the latest example seen right here just

01:23a few days ago.

01:24We can see today that the people are very listening to us and doing exactly what we

01:29are asking them.

01:30And we saw it, for example, in the last alarm that there were a few parts of the rocket

01:36that fell inside the city and the people were in the shelters.

01:40So no one was hurt and so they are listening.

01:44The ground operation now underway in southern Lebanon is meant to take care of the infrastructures

01:49targeting the border communities, but not the tens of thousands of long-range rockets

01:54still in the hands of Hezbollah.

01:56This means that the city of Haifa should still be ready for impact.

02:00Jonathan Regev, CGTN, Haifa, northern Israel.

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