US EditionIranian Strikes Expose Bomb Shelter Shortage for Palestinian Towns Inside Israel
- On June 15, 2025, an Iranian missile hit a residential building in Tamra, a town in northern Israel with a majority Palestinian population, resulting in the deaths of four Palestinian citizens and injuring dozens more.
- The attack occurred amid an Iranian missile barrage targeting northern Israel, following days of reciprocal strikes between Israel and Iran beginning on June 13 and 14.
- Tamra's approximately 35,000 residents lack public shelters and most homes do not have safe rooms, in contrast to nearby Mitzpe Aviv, which has 13 shelters for about 1,100 residents.
- Local sources reported that among the fatalities were a woman and her teenage and young adult daughters, aged 13 and 20, while rescue teams continued to search amid alerts of potential additional attacks.
- This attack highlights the vulnerability of Palestinian towns inside Israel due to insufficient civil defense infrastructure and escalates the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran.
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Israel blocks Palestinians from shelters during Iran strikes
Dozens of Palestinian citizens and foreign workers have been denied entry to shelters as Iranian missiles rained down across Israel. Four members of one Palestinian family were wiped out in the northern town of Tamra after a rocket struck their home late on Saturday. Locals said the family had no warning or anywhere to hide. The strike on Tamra, located in the Lower Galilee region near Haifa, marked one of the deadliest single attacks on Palesti…
We Palestinian citizens of Israel whisper our grief, and bury our dead in silence
The Israeli government claims to defend all its citizens, yet most Arab towns still lack bomb shelters. Protests, however, are muted – Palestinians in Israel live between unbearable realities: danger at home and the devastation in Gaza
CNN Exploits Arab Israeli Family’s Death to Push Narrative of ‘Bomb Shelter Discrimination’ Against Palestinians
In the early hours of Sunday morning, a missile launched by Iran struck the northern Israeli town of Tamra, near Haifa, killing four women from the same Arab Israeli family. Manar Khatib, her daughters Hala, aged 20, and Shada, 13, and a relative—also named Manar Khatib—were killed when their multi-storey home took a direct hit. Manar’s husband, Raja, and their youngest daughter, Razan, survived. More than a dozen others were wounded and evacuat…
There are times when the lottery that separates life and death happens to one brushing. They tell in the neighborhood that Ehab, a man in quarantine, does not know what he would have preferred, on which side he would have wanted to stay. At the end of Saturday, he was inserting the key into the door of his house when the huge noise occurred. Everything trembled, and the two-storey building that houses the house of Ehab and his brother in the tow…
Iran is shooting at the oil refinery in Haifa. A rocket crashes and kills four Israeli Muslims in Tamra. Aren't all Israelis equally well protected?
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