Military expert Major General Fayez Al -Duwairi said that the shelters inside the towers and residential buildings are not fortified shelters, but rather “fortified rooms that may protect against shrapnel, and not from a direct blow.”
Al -Duwairi’s speech came after the Israeli Channel 12 stated that a preliminary investigation revealed that an Iranian missile had a direct infection in Batah Tikva, east Tel Aviv It led to the killing of 3 Israelis.
The Israeli Home Front also said that a heavy ballistic missile hit the wall between two rooms fortified in Pattah Tikva.
Al -Duwairi explained – in his analysis of the military scene in the region – that the fortified shelters should be independent outside or under the ground floor on the ground floor.
The military expert pointed out that the fortified room is safer than other rooms, and “protects against a blow to dozens of meters away, but it does not protect from a direct missile strike.”
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As for the engineering specifications of the traditional fortifications and shelters, the thickness of its wall is doubled and armored with iron layers, and its roofs are 120 centimeters thick.
According to Al -Duwairi, these specifications are in military sites and individual facilities and in the depth of the mountains and are covered with backfilling materials, and “is not a fortified room inside the buildings, whatever their specifications.”
The fortified room knows an increase in the thickness of its walls (30 centimeters according to engineering standards), as well as built from reinforced concrete instead of empty bricks, as well as the thickness of the ceiling is doubled, according to the Duwairi.
If the direct injuries of the fortified places, the military expert stressed the need to talk about the ability of the missiles to penetrate, as there are missiles with warheads that penetrate more than 120 centimeters of concrete, and there are also supernatural bombs for the fortifications.
He emphasized that some missiles penetrate the fortifications if they are used in them, have the ability to penetrate layers of cement, not just one layer.
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In turn, Maariv newspaper quoted an Israeli ambulance spokesman as saying that the shelters may not stand up to the missiles.
As for the Al -Jazeera correspondent in Palestine, Muhammad Khairi, he said that there are two types of shelters in IsraelThe first of them is underground shelters belonging to the Israeli municipalities and government.
Likewise, in modern houses there are a refuge in the same building, and it is built according to many modern criteria of cement to prevent missiles from reaching.