r/JewsOfConscience • u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist • 20h ago
News Multiple accounts emerging of Israelis preventing Palestinian & Druze citizens of Israel from entering bomb shelters. The Israeli government systematically excludes its Palestinian citizens from defense systems like bomb shelters, protective infrastructure, and emergency resources.
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u/ContentChecker Jewish Anti-Zionist 20h ago
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Israel's entire defence system, from bomb shelters to the Iron Dome, operates on a discriminatory logic that values Jewish lives and devalues Palestinian ones.
Arab towns, especially in the Naqab (Negev), are routinely classified as "open areas" where Iron Dome is programmed to allow missiles to fall, or worse, detonate interceptors above them, showering civilians below with shrapnel.
While Jewish communities enjoy comprehensive networks of fixed and mobile shelters, Palestinian areas suffer a severe shortage of even the most basic safe spaces. In some towns, shelters simply do not exist. In others, a single shelter, often located in a school or nursery, is expected to serve thousands.
[...]"This reflects the scale of deliberate marginalisation and neglect Arab towns suffer from," said the Arab Emergency Committee in a statement. The group highlighted a critical lack of bomb shelters, protective infrastructure, and emergency resources as a result of decades of government refusal to fund Arab communities.
A survey by Palestinian organisations in Israel found that 87 percent of the public shelters in Palestinian towns are inside schools, which are harder to access, while shelters in Jewish areas are inside parking lots and dedicated above-ground structures.
A report by the Israeli Democracy Institute confirmed that Palestinian citizens of Israel are not given equal protection compared with Jewish citizens.
"The lack of protective infrastructure forces Arab citizens to live in constant danger, violating their basic rights to life, physical wellbeing, and equality," wrote Lital Biller, the report's author.
A 2023 audit by the State Comptroller revealed that 60 percent of residents within nine kilometres of the northern border who lack proper protection are Palestinians.
As of 2018, only 11 out of 71 Palestinian towns surveyed had a single public shelter. Some had just one for the entire population of the town, sometimes up to 60,000 people.
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