Chairman of a parliamentary panel on Israel’s home defense preparations, Zeev Bielski said Monday that “Israel’s civil defenses are not ready to protect the population in a missile war.”
Chairman of a parliamentary panel on "Israel's home defense preparations", Zeev Bielski said Monday that “Israel’s civil defenses are not ready to protect the population in a missile war.”
According to Reuters news agency, the statement, which “fueled debate about the feasibility of an attack on Iran's nuclear program”, indicated that “almost one in four Israelis lack access to bomb shelters, whether communal or reinforced rooms in private homes.”
Bielski went on saying “Are we prepared for a war? No.”
"Things are moving too slowly and we are wasting very precious time,” he added in an interview with the news agency.
The Zionist entity has previously noted that 100,000 rockets are pointed at it by the resistance movements in the region.
The “Israeli Civil Defense Ministry”, which was reportedly “set up after Israel suffered thousands of rocket strikes in the 2006 Lebanon war,” confirmed Bielski's data to Reuters.
However, it indicated that “our position remains that if everyone does what they are expected to do during an emergency, the situation will be tenable.”
In the same context, the US said its policy was aimed at “buying time” with Iran.
Israeli daily Haaretz quoted US National Security Adviser, Anthony Blinken as saying that “the US policy on Iran is aimed at buying time and continuing to move this problem into the future, and if you can do that - strange things can happen in the interim.”
Blinken, also assured during a briefing organized by the Israeli Policy Forum (IPF) in New York that “the US believes that Iran has not made a decision to produce a nuclear weapon, they are not on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon, and there is still time and space for diplomacy to work.”
US National Security Adviser, who according to Haaretz was carefully choosing his words, also stated that “Israel views a nuclear Iran as “an existential threat” while the U.S. believes that it would pose “a direct and serious threat” to its own security.
