Why do we still have to wait to decide already on the implementation of the emergency plan to reduce the risks to human life from the huge HOMs reserves in the Gulf?
It's no secret and the enemy also knows that Haifa Bay contains the country's largest stockpiles of hazardous materials. In light of the lessons of the past, in all war scenarios, an emergency plan was recommended and even prepared to reduce or empty these stockpiles according to prioritization made by the Home Front Command and in cooperation with the relevant government ministries .
The plan includes methods for emptying or thinning the tanks and pipelines, spreading the risk to several geographic areas and the required means of transportation. To the best of my knowledge, this critical topic was practiced in the past, in one of the home front command exercises that were in the Gulf region.
In the last day, the municipality of Haifa and a number of members of the Municipal Defense Committee learned that there was a request to the Home Front Command to immediately implement the plan, but despite recommendations that reached the army from professionals and commanders at the field levels, the implementation of this plan is being delayed, which will greatly reduce the risk of dispersal of various types of hazardous materials in the event of Direct damage to these databases.
We will not detail here, for obvious reasons, which are the more dangerous and deadly substances and where they are located, but the list is known both to the mayors of the cities around the Gulf and to all the relevant parties.
As a result of the delay in the implementation of the aforementioned plan, a member of the municipal council committee, Mr. Avihu Han, together with the former mayor of Haifa, Mr. Yona Yahav, who were joined by the mayor of Kiryat Motzkin, Mr. Haim Tzuri, initiated a joint letter sent to the Minister of Defense, Yoav Galant, to the Minister of Energy Israel Katz and MK Benny Gantz demanding to immediately carry out the plan to remove the hazardous materials from Haifa Bay according to the established prioritization.
If a war starts in the north - it will be too late
One of the lessons of the Second Lebanon War is that as soon as missiles start falling in the northern region, it is no longer possible to send road tankers to empty the tanks and this is also an operation that takes many hours.
The State Comptroller's reports on what happened in the Gulf in 2006 are well remembered by us, including harsh descriptions of the refusal of truck drivers to come under fire to the port of Haifa in order to remove from there dozens of isotank containers with deadly HMS that had accumulated on the wharf in preparation for loading onto ships, while all the ships had already Run out of the area and missiles fall around the platform.
Who is guarded?
It is our duty, and especially the elected representatives and representatives of the public in the Haifa metropolis, to ask the decision makers until when are you waiting? And which interest do you prefer to keep?
Shouldn't saving human life be a priority far before the financial interest of the owners of these dangerous facilities?
A puzzling announcement from the Ministry of Environmental Protection
Today, a puzzling announcement from the Ministry of Environmental Protection was published, probably following the aforementioned letter, according to which the ministry's teams "conduct joint audits and tours" of factories with large concentrations of HMS "in order to check their readiness for emergencies and wartime". If this announcement is supposed to reassure us, then it clearly succeeds the opposite goal. You don't have to be a great expert to understand that this is an irresponsible move on the part of the government, which must carry out the plan to dilute or empty the reservoirs in the most threatened places, including the Haifa Bay. There is no escape from informing or reminding the Minister of Environmental Protection, Idit Silman, that tours and inspections These have already been conducted many times and it is known that there is no protective measure that will prevent a large leak or explosion of a tank or reservoir for the storage of HMS if it is directly hit by a missile.
As we know, the war scenario in the north, which we hope will not break out, talks about about 1500 missiles a day on Haifa and its surroundings, just in the first week of the fighting!
There will be no comparison to what happened in the Second Lebanon War, when in the entire previous war, which lasted over 50 days, about 4000 missiles landed in the northern region. In this expected scenario for all-out fighting on the northern front, which was conveyed to the local authorities by the security forces and government ministries, Haifa Bay will be a major target for a missile attack, as Nasrallah has already stated many times.
As far as the enemy is concerned, Haifa Bay creates a sort of threat balance for them, the aim of which is to prevent serious harm from the IDF to them in Lebanon. On this occasion, it should be mentioned that phase two of the aggregate risk survey for Haifa Bay has not yet been carried out, even though the Ministry of Environmental Protection promised back in 2017 that it would be carried out within A year, since then another five years have passed. Phase XNUMX was supposed to include a risk survey based on war scenarios, PFA and natural disasters and we see today how relevant it is!
Immediate implementation of the risk reduction plan
The war scenario in the north still exists, whether in the current war or in a future war. In addition to the large concentration of forces that the IDF rightly carries out in front of the northern border with a very high level of vigilance, an activity is required to reduce the risk to the home front, headed by the immediate implementation of the plan to reduce the risk in the military bases in the Haifa and Yafa bays one hour earlier!
And when will they get rid of the aircraft that buzzes day and night, bothering and disturbing right over Ahas and Carmelia??? (a long period, and certainly not related to security).
I wonder why it was not mentioned in the article that the mayor Dr. Einat Kalish sent a similar request before all the populists who take a ride on every initiative of Einat's welcome
You are a biased, dishonest press and create a distorted truth and you probably have a reason for that.
When the populist Mr. Yahav was mayor, he never acted on the issue and even though he did so in 2006, he neglected the issue a week after that war in which, miraculously, no disaster happened.
shame!
When the tanks and trucks run on water and not diesel and fuel, you can evacuate them as well right now, all the talk is in the air
Maybe you want to buy fuel and diesel from the Americans trucks and tanks
And the tanks and planes will wait for now
Unfortunately, the process in Israel is like this:
Warning->ignored->disaster-> how we didn't prepare-> search for culprits-> punishment for ShG
Understand that there is no police and no army.
What there are are businessmen and legal professionals who remotely control all the processes in the State of Israel.
We accepted the state of the High Court and the state of the centenarian. They decided that this government is not to their liking, and they will throw it out with huge demonstrations.
Nothing interested them, they didn't see eye to eye. The millionaire pensioners - decide who is good for them and who is not good for them.
There are the right ones, and they will not pay a price for the failures and will continue to turn the IDF into a peace branch now and send chiefs of staff
for political discussions in Sharm or Washington. And there are the wrong ones who can be blamed for everything that happens, they are the H.S.G...
The Home Front Command knows how to send flying missions to Cyprus, Turkey, Morocco, Africa.
Only to protect the Israeli settlements and provide a logistical rear for the war here, they don't know.
To create panic and run to empty shelves, this is the great readiness of commanding nothing and nothing.
So you expect that nothing and nothing, just sitting in the office and counting down to the millionaire pension at age 49,
Will they really make brave decisions to empty reservoirs and really take care of preparing the home front for a war situation? Hahahahaha you made them laugh.