In the barrage around 4 AM in the morning of June 16, the interceptor explosions in the sky above my bomb shelter sounded much closer than the Tel Aviv ones had in previous days. Turns out that’s because the target was Petach Tikvah – a large city in Central Israel. A residential building was struck.
It’s the kind of hit where being in a bomb shelter may not have helped at all.
Excerpt from the Jerusalem Post report:
Zaki Heller, MDA spokesman, told Udi Segal and Anat Davidov on 103FM radio that it is possible that being in a safe room would not have prevented the victim’s deaths, although would being in a protected space significantly improves the chance of survival.
“When a missile hits a structure directly, it is possible that even the protected room here will not withstand such a missile,” he shared. “We are going apartment by apartment and making sure that there are no casualties, the main event – two buildings with 20 floors, the scans in each of the apartments. We treated 43 casualties.”
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Sources:
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-857861