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“I’m so angry so” says Kasem Abu al-Hija, 67.
On Saturday, when the Iranian missile hit his homes in northern Israel, 4 family members were killed when the concrete building was collapsed on them.
Witnesses says the books, clothes, children’s toys and body parts flew off the road.
When the rocket hit the whole street darkness. Rescuers managed to find their body traces of blood.
Four victims Kasem’s daughter Manar Khatib, 45, two grandchildren, Shada, 20 and hala, 13 and aunt, manal, manal, 41 were named after Khatib.
They were able to make two strong safe rooms in the house they share it – but the ballistic missile hit it directly.
Northern Israel lived in Tamra in an Arab-opposite city.
A few minutes after their deaths, a video appeared. The heavens showed Iranian missiles. As soon as he descended to Tamra, you can hear a voice in Hebrew, “in the village, in the village.”
“Let your village turn on”, a group of others, then sing and sticks and sticks.
“What did they talk about what happened with my family,” Kasem, soft and relatives faced.
The video of a common Arab Anti-Arabic language, which is very often sounded in Israel, is very condemned in Israel, President Ishaq Herzog calls him “terrible and disgraceful.”
However, there is more reason why casemine and a broader community in Tamra.
Here – do not have public bomb shelter for 38,000 residents of many Arab-majority in Israel – 38,000 inhabitants.
For comparison, a nearby Jewish city of Calyeli, 55,000 people have 126 public shelters.
Tamra residents raised an alarm alert with each other. In the northern Israeli city, located in the east of Haifa about 10 km (6 miles) and 25 km (16 miles) and the Lebanese Lebanese group, the city-supported Lebanese group is sensitive to fired missiles by Hezbollah. In October 2024, a rocket, a fire in the group, was seriously injured.
Throughout Israel, there is no access to the necessary shelter of about a quarter. However, almost half of this figure in non-Jewish local authorities, according to the report of the Israeli state compact with the latest data in 2018.
“For many decades, the Arab Local Government in various fields, including emergency preparations, including extraordinary preparations,” The Israeli Democracy Institute, “Democracy Tank
Where the shelters are, “they are less, poorly kept poor and often not suitable for a long time.”
BBC approached the Israeli Defense Ministry for comment.
Israeli Arabs – many people prefer to call Israel’s Palestinian citizens – are one-fifth of the country’s population. They have equal rights by law and Jewish citizens, but they are regularly complaining of state discrimination and are accepted as secondary citizens.
After the 1990s and 1990s, Iraq rockets hit Tel Aviv and Haifa, the Israeli government must be a safe room or mamad, intensified in all new residential buildings.
However, Arab communities often face hard planning restrictions that cause unregulated construction and built-in houses.
About 40% of Tama’s homes have their own safe room, and local authorities are saying that the neighbors leave the majority of residents who have to escape to their homes. In many cases, this is not possible for the short warning period.
Snake Amit, who said, “Gentles are giant,” said the Arab-Jewish, Equal and Cooperation Center for establishing shelters in Arab communities (AJEEC). “I live in Jerusalem. Every building has a bomb shelter. There is a public bomb shelter in every neighborhood.”
As the Dark Tamra falls, the inhabitants lighted the phones with a noisy warning: “You must be close to the protected area.”
Sirens are watching soon and residents – fresh from the trauma of Saturday holiday – panic. Mothers collect their children and shouting people on the street. Several families knocked on the safe room of a house. Some, some smiles and others splash in a nervous way. A man closes his eyes and praying. Bum after the boom.
The issue of asylum in the Israeli Arabic communities is further clarified – many do not build worms in the villages in the Negev Desert, which is not recognized by the Israeli government.
On April 2024, 2024, the only victim of military operations between Israel and Iran was a young girl from such a society, and a year was in hospital after hitting the head of the patient missile.
The lack of shelters is also a matter of Israel’s southern regions in the areas in the regions in the regions.
82.7% of the Jewish Israelites conducted by the Hebrew University support Iran – 67.9% of Arab Israel oppose it. In addition, 69.2% of the Arab Israelites gave fear of the holidays – 25.1% expressed despair.
“Arab society is indifferent and remains behind,” says Amit. “There are large gaps in education and employment. There are large gaps in shelters in the presence of shelters.”
Adel Khatib, who is Tamra Municipal Officer, says: “You can feel anger since what happened.”
“We do not get the basic needs,” says Khatib. “Most Arab communities do not have community centers or buildings for their culture and activities.”
According to official Israeli statistics, in 2023, 42.4% of the Arab population lived in poverty – doubled the ratio of the total population of Israel.
There were attempts to close these gaps in recent years. In 2021, the previous Israeli government brought the five-year development plan for the Arab society.
“We were in the middle of a giant leap in social economic development, gaps in education, higher education and employment,” says Amit.
However, a right-wing coalition of Israel, the hardest line in history, slowly reduced the financing for this plan – re-directed other places.
Some of these cuts, on a sustainable war in a sustainable war in Gaza, on the sustainable war, on October 7, 2023, about 1,200 people were killed and 251 were killed and 251 were killed and 251 were killed.
“This government simply put it, you know, these five-year plan cling to the wheels, it does not allow them to implement a wide range of” AFOR.
“The last year, the Arab society was found on the one hand, a rock and a rock, which suffered from the current government policy, and on the other side and the west coast, he said,” he said.
Outside the ruins of the family house, 16-year-old Mohammad Osman, not a neighbor, “Everyone is angry and sad.”
Shada speaks at the age of 20: “He read his life. He wanted to be the best. He was a lawyer and he wanted to be like him. All these dreams disappeared.
“They were the best scenery of a happy family … I imagine the pieces I saw while imagining them.”
In an awake, dozens of community members are collected from the funeral, greet each other in hand, coffee and tea and mourn.
“Bombs do not choose between Arabs or Jews,” Kasem says. “We have to finish this war. Now we have to finish.”
Photos by Tom Bennett