Here is a picture of the instruction paper I got. It in Hebrew, so all you non-Hebrew readers can go to the Home Front Command website and read it there, and even watch an instruction video.
Archive for February, 2008
I went to get the car from the garage this morning, and then went to do the regular shopping for my parents. In the supermarket I was approached by a young female soldier which handed me a paper with instructions on how to behave in a rockets attack. Only after she gave me the paper I noticed there is a whole group of orange-berets soldiers walking around, giving the papers to people and talking with them.
Most people, I got to admit, were nice but weren’t showing more than a polite interest. No gathering around or looking worried. The streets outside looked like just normal Friday afternoon. Kids playing outside, and people doing shopping.
You could still feel a little bit of tension in the air. I don’t know if it’s cause people here didn’t really fully grasp the new situation or just cause people are tougher than you’d think.
What did look a bit different to me in the supermarket was that everywhere you looked, there was a sign showing the direction to the supermarket’s secured area. I snapped a couple of pictures to share with you:
Signs pointing to the secured area
the sign above the milk
The soldiers and the photographer following them
(which was kicked out of the supermarket by the manager a minute later)
One of the many ads posted all over town calling for a demonstration on Saturday evening.
Damn, just came to my parent’s for the weekend and in order to put the car in the garage, wasn’t planning to go back into warblogging…
Anyway, the Israeli news sites report there was a big explosion in Gaza. The Air Force been hitting missiles-launching teams around the clock since the morning. Apperantly, every time IDF manage to hit one of these teams the Palestinians go out to the press saying it were kids that were hit. So either they lie (which is the usual case) or they want us to believe the launching teams are composed of 11 and 14 years old kids…
Update: the missile that hit close to here wounded a girl lightly and also a few people in shock were taken to the hospital. Another Grad missile hit a school.
Note: Err… Sorry if I scared any of you who are my friends on facebook. I was just reporting the fall in my status line, I’m ok myself. 
Update 2: The IDF says the big explosion is th result of it attacking a very big storage house of missiles and weapons.
28
Feb
Bloody hell
Ok, we just had a missile hit about 5 minutes from my parent’s house here.
I went out to get the dog inside the house. My father watches TV and didn’t even hear the fall. There is no “Red Color” alarm installed in Ashkelon so there isn’t even a warning before the missiles hit.
28
Feb
Missiles on my city
Hmm… Been quite a while since I wrote, specially on the ‘situation’.
I’ve arrived to Ashkelon today after a few meetings in Tel Aviv. I came here to my parents and also to put the car in the garage for a waaaay overdue periodical treatment.
About 5 minutes after I arrived to my parents house I heard a very clear and familiar sound – the sound of a rocket landing not far from me. Turns out it really wasn’t that far… (I won’t give exact location of course…) My father has a bit of a hearing problem and when I mentioned the sound he was like “Ho, it’s probably the kids playing with something. You know Purim is almost here.”. Leonardo, my dog, was also pretty relaxed. Ho well.
While I was driving to the garage another rocket landed in the city. This time it wasn’t an open area like before – it was a direct hit in a residential building, penetrating the wal and going through 2 apartments (2 floors). I heard it got about 15 people in shock (well, some were INSIDE the apartments when the rockets penetrated…) but thank god, nothing more severe.
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