The row over the lack of shelters in Ashkelon continues, with the city’s mayor saying that 25% of residents don’t have access to a protected area when rockets are fired at the city.
“It is impossible when normal life becomes a state of emergency within minutes. It is time to strike Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad with a hard blow,” Tomer Glam tells Army Radio. “There are houses from the 1960s where there is no basic protection — it is time for finance officials and decision makers to understand what is happening here in the city.”
Earlier, a resident told the outlet that when the sirens wail he relies on “Iron Dome and luck.”
Ashkleon has been hit with multiple barrages of rockets, with one projectile hitting a home in the early hours of Tuesday, wounding six people, including four members of the same family. The father was seriously hurt with a head wound, and his wife and children aged 8 and 11 sustained light injuries from shrapnel.
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