IDF: Residents south of Haifa will have one-minute rocket warning

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/738747.html

A senior Israel Defense Forces official said on Saturday evening that should Hezbollah guerillas fire rockets that reach areas south of Haifa, a warning siren will be heard one minute before they land.

The head of the IDF Home Front Command, Yitzhak Gershon, also said that residents of hard-hit areas of the north that have been instructed to remain in protected rooms and bomb shelters should continue to do so and not go to work on Sunday.

The order is relevant to anyone living north of Route 85 between Acre and Amiad, as well as the residents of Carmiel, Tiberias, Migdal, Arbel, Kfar Zeitim, and Kfar Hitim. Gershon also urged residents of Haifa, its northern suburbs, Nesher and Tirat Hacarmel to remain in their homes.
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For the first time since the 1991 Persian Gulf War, the IDF has deployed Patriot missile batteries in Haifa.

The missile defense system cannot destroy Katyusha rockets - hundreds of which have been fired at Israel from Lebanon in recent days - but could protect against surface-to-surface missiles, such as those possessed by Syria, the army said.

Additional rockets landed near Tiberias - in Kfar Hitim, Evron, and Abu Snan. One person suffered from shock.
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Israel is definitely getting ready for Syria's rockets...putting missile defense in

how terrifying it would be to live in one of these Middle Eastern nations right now. We really don't know how good we have it here in America. No foreign nations lobbing missiles at us or invading us with tanks ect. For all the problems in this country we do have it well off in some respects. Puts things in perspective...

need to experience ,or the people who poo poo the war as some minor single issue . that will teach them to be so cavalier towards those of us to whom war is THE issue. I participated in Desert Storm and had a missle or two lobbed at my navy ship, they were fortunately shot down but when you hear "missle inbound, brace for shock" you do tend to take pause..

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