“When I heard the sirens at dawn on Friday, her voice was high and different from the sound that we used to hear from the beginning of the war, there is no shelter in our house .. I rushed and hid under the dining table .. I know that this method in which we were shelter during the wars of the last century and it is not safe but there is no other way in a city Jerusalem“.
With these words, Jerusalem (DA) expressed her turmoil the moment the Israeli attack began Iran At dawn last Friday, and her fear for herself and her family with the start of the sirens first, and from successive explosions in Jerusalem later caused by the fall or interception of Iranian missiles.
The condition of this lady is not different from the condition of most of the Jerusalemites, as their homes lack the fortified “refuge” rooms that are the only haven when hearing sirens in Jerusalem.
Some of the houses were injured, and others erupted, in neighborhoods of Shuafat, Al -Matar, the leader, Al -Issawiya, Wadi al -Jawz, north and east of occupied Jerusalem, as a result of the fools of objectionable missiles.
It is noteworthy that the danger is escalating on the Jerusalemites in light of the limited shelters, the lack of means of protection, and the absence of an infrastructure capable of dealing … pic.twitter.com/hWjLhVnBYI
– Jerusalem compass (@alqudsalbawsala) June 16, 2025
General shelters are to fall
Not only that; Rather, many of the Jerusalemites expressed their dissatisfaction with the announcement of the opening of some institutions and schools as general shelters in the various neighborhoods of Jerusalem, especially since some schools in some neighborhoods are the same dangerous and the fall, and they cannot be a safe shelter for the population.
The citizen (A N), who lives in a town SolaceAnd he is one of the parents of the students who receive their education in a school belonging to the municipality of the occupation, that the parents organized a number of protest stands and suspended the academic working hours repeatedly to demand the restoration of the school of their children, “which is the fall”.
“I was astonished when I saw that this school is included in the general shelters that the residents of the neighborhood should resort to as soon as the sirens are activated, and I know very well that it lacks the necessary security and safety standards … The occupation does not care about the safety of any of us, and we prefer death in our homes, not with a general shelter like this.”
The reasons for the absence of the fortified room (the shelter) diverge in the homes of Jerusalemites, starting from most of them to build their homes randomly and without obtaining the necessary licenses from the occupation municipality due to the high costs and impossible requirements, through the specifications and high costs of the construction of this room, and not ending with the construction of a large number of homes before the municipality imposing a law that forces Jerusalemites to build this room.
“Shelters for Jews only”
One of the Jerusalemites, the Jerusalemites – preferred not to be named – told Al -Jazeera Net that the construction of the fortified refuge room has become obligatory after the Iraqi missile attacks on Israel or what is known as “Saddam’s war“In 1991, yet many homes of Jerusalemites are still lacking.
The Jerusalem architect explained that it is not possible to talk about the percentage of homes where the shelters are available because this information is not available, but what can be confirmed is that all the settlement units that are constructed in the west of the city include this room.
When asked about the issue of the general shelters announced that it was opened before the Jerusalemites, this engineer stressed that this step comes within the framework of the media only, and that Israel says to all that it cares about the Arabs and opens in front of them in general, and in fact the matter is that many shelters are unsafe, and they do not accommodate the number of residents of any neighborhood.
Conclusive occupying policies
Jerusalem and director of the Jerusalem work center of Al -Quds University, Munir Nusseibeh, said, in his comment on the issue of the security and safety of Jerusalemites in light of the Israeli -Iranian war.
This is because it is rare for the occupation municipality to issue constructive permits for the sanctuaries, which led to the construction of complete lanes without taking into account safety procedures and the construction of the necessary shelters, and this is the tip of the flood of racist policies followed by the occupation and imposes it on the Palestinians in general and the sacred in particular, a situation that cannot be lived with forever, and it must stop immediately.
It is noteworthy that two types of homes of Jerusalemites are threatened by danger more than others, the first is the high buildings that were constructed without supervision in the Jerusalem neighborhoods located behind Apartheid wallAnd that the various occupation departments deliberately turned a blind eye to pushing more Jerusalemites to immigrate to it.
The second is the disrupted and unilateral houses of the fall due to the prevention of the occupation, or due to the excavations that were implemented and are still being implemented below, especially in the old town and the town of Silwan, south of it, and in these two geographical stains there are hundreds of houses whose floors fell or their walls were caused by the excavations that were launched decades ago and are still continuing to this day.