Tel Aviv Bars Homeless From Bomb Shelters
Officials Cite Importance of Keeping Shelters Clean and Orderly
The Tel Aviv city government is coming under criticism tonight from aid groups on news that they have posted guards outside of the city’s bomb shelters to prevent homeless people from entering.
“It is sad that at a time all Israeli citizens are seeking shelter, there are those who think it is right to spend public money on separating between those who can enter the shelters and those who can’t,” noted Omer Shatz, attorney for the We Are Refugees nonprofit.
Technically speaking, the shelters are open to all during bomb alerts, but incoming rockets haven’t always come with such an alert, and officials complain that the homeless are sleeping in the shelters, saying keeping them out is important to keeping the shelters “clean” in the event they are needed.
Reports from the aid groups say that guards are only present in neighborhoods with a significant homeless population, and there doesn’t seem to be any effort to keep Israelis out of the shelters in the rest of the city.
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Yonatan
November 21st, 2012 at 3:37 am
Just when you think Israel has hit its lowest point, the manage to did just that little bit deeper.
richard vajs
November 21st, 2012 at 5:44 am
That is probably the most "positive" statement you can make about Israel – on the depravity scale, they are always #1.
Margaret Oils
November 21st, 2012 at 1:16 pm
So that would be where the chosen mayor of NYC learned that little trick from. They're all a cut of the same cloth. Such a compassionate and humane lot. Their god must be so proud of them.
John_Muhammad
November 21st, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Social planning at its finest. Have a homeless population during wartime? No problem- keep them out of the bomb shelters and let the shrapnel get them.
Voila! No more homeless people and high-value propaganda evidence of 'terrorism' all rolled into one!
(But, if this were done on the Palestinian side, those dead would be labeled as 'collateral damage', as are all civilians killed by the IDF.)
RParker
November 22nd, 2012 at 11:58 pm
Israel actually has homeless people? I thought all the billions in free money the US taxpayers send them every year allow all of them to live like kings on our dime.