IDF To Start Handing Out New Gas Masks To Civilians In January

[Purveyor]

The Home Front Command will begin distributing new gas mask kits to the civilian population beginning in January. The plan is to hand out 4.5 million kits within three years.

GOC Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, told Haaretz, "we would have liked to distribute kits in the least amount of time to the entire population of the country, but we don't have enough kits due to budgetary constraints."

The Home Front Command plans to distribute the kits to residents of the north and center, two areas thought to be at higher risk of chemical attack.

Golan also said the Home Front Command had completed a plan which would improve civil defense protection in older apartment buildings in which the individual units are not equipped with a reinforced room (mamad). The plan calls for the conversion of stairwells to civil defense areas which would accommodate residents during emergencies.

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1121251.html

[stranger81]

1. This makes me wonder what the IDF is planning on unleashing

that they want to protect their own citizens from. Undoubtedly nothing good.

[pdxmike]

2. Hey! I've got a crazy thought...

Maybe it's because they want to protect their citizens? Hezbollah rockets can now reach Tel Aviv. Hamas rockets may not be far behind. Is it that much of a stretch to think they may want to be prepared for that?
BTW- unless Israel is planning to gas the entire Middle-East, they wouldn't provide gas masks to their own population centers. Get a grip.