Alongside the rows of tomatoes, alfalfa and other crops growing in Israel’s south, small, white igloo-esque buildings are beginning to pop up in rocket-battered fields near the border with Gaza.
The buildings, essentially super-reinforced modular units, are being placed in fields to protect farm laborers trying to work fields too far from standing shelters and left exposed to near-constant rocket fire out of Gaza.
Thai foreign workers standing in a mobile bomb shelter at Moshav Beit HaGadi in the Southern Israel on August 20, 2014. (photo credit: Edi Israel/Flash90)
The 119 shelters, which cost NIS 30,000 ($8,500) each, have taken on new importance since the beginning of Operation Protective Edge, as farm workers, most of them Thai nationals, have struggled to work while being regularly bombarded by rocket and mortar fire.
— Justin Jalil
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