Petah Tikva has been one of many main targets for Iranian missiles in each the present struggle and the marketing campaign final June. Final 12 months two secure rooms obtained direct hits from Iranian missiles and 4 folks sheltering in them have been killed, regardless that that they had adopted Dwelling Entrance Command directions. However earlier this week, then again, a cluster bomb from an Iranian missile straight hit a secure room, additionally in Petah Tikva, however this time the lives of the babysitter and the youngsters she was taking care of have been saved, attributable to the truth that they have been within the secure room.
This raises as soon as once more the continuing query: Is a secure room proof against a missile strike?
Following the tragedies final 12 months in Petah Tikva, the Dwelling Entrance Command defined that this was an excessive occasion, and that secure rooms can’t stand up to direct hits, however fairly shrapnel and impression harm. Specialists clarify that with the intention to reply to a direct hit from a half-ton missile, a wall thickness of three meters of concrete is required. This doesn’t exist in public shelters both, and if such a missile hits a public shelter, it’s going to trigger related harm.
“The secure room stood the check effectively”
Lt. Col. (res.) Dr. Benny Brosh, former chief engineer of the Dwelling Entrance Command and a member of the Engineers’ Union, says, “Basically, secure rooms have stood the check effectively. At a stage the place, should you had requested me earlier than, I might have estimated that the state of affairs would have ended a bit of worse.”
“Suppose on a nationwide stage, what must occur, if you need, for instance, that when the secure room went by such an occasion (a direct hit) nothing would occur each on a nationwide stage and on the personal stage of every of our houses. We’d have needed to pay main value will increase for it, together with the architectural implications of such a choice, development areas, and extra. Due to this fact, it is a sort of threat administration. In any case, even the most secure car on this planet will not be designed to hit a concrete wall with out inflicting harm that harms the passengers.”
Nevertheless, if a lesson is to be drawn from this story, Brosh factors out that this was a constructing (hit earlier this week) that underwent TAMA 38, and that plan, which obtained fairly a little bit of criticism from a planning perspective, proved its significance from a safety-security perspective. There is no such thing as a doubt that the harm that will have been induced to the constructing would have been a lot larger than what was induced to it after reinforcement and safety,” he notes.
Following the incident in Petah Tikva, one other query arises: Is it proper that one of many partitions of the constructing the place the secure room is positioned needs to be an exterior wall or would it not have been higher to maneuver it as a totally inside room. Based on Brosh, even such (inside) buildings, which have been beforehand generally designed this manner, didn’t all the time present safety for his or her occupants. Final 12 months, folks have been killed in Beersheba who had such a secure room of their dwelling,” he notes.
Revealed by Globes, Israel enterprise information – en.globes.co.il – on March 26, 2026.
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