Israel unveils shelters in Tel Aviv

Описание: (6 Mar 2012) SHOTLIST
HEADLINE: Israel unveils shelters in Tel Aviv
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CAPTION: Tel Aviv has been working to build and refurbish shelters in recent months, in case of attack. But a number of officials say Israel isn't doing enough, given the nature of the threats the country faces. (05 March 2012)
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Tel Aviv - 29 February 2012
1. Various of underground shelter entrance opening
2. Tracking shot of person walking down shelter stairs
3. Wide of man closing armoured door to shelter
4. Pan right of shelter
5. Pan over water tanks
Tel Aviv - 28 February 2012
6. Wide of Tel Aviv skyline
Raanana - 1 March 2012
7. SOUNDNBITE (English) Zeev Bielski, Israeli Knesset member, Kadima party, Chairman, Subcommittee for the Examination of Home-Front Readiness at Israeli parliament:
"My committee came to the conclusion that we are not ready enough, and that's why we call upon the government to speed the preparations, to do what they have to so. They've got responsibility for eight (m) million people living in Israel."
Tel Aviv - 28 February 2012
8. Tilt down from sign to hospital beds
9. Pan right over equipment room
10. Pan left to hospital beds underground
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Gabriel Barbash, Director-General of Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Centre:
"How do you operate a facility, a protected facility, for only half of the patients of the hospital and half of the staff? Who is going to stay above unprotected and who is going to be moved underground to be protected?"
Tel Aviv - 27 February 2012
12. Tilt down from palm tree to shelter entrance
13. Various of shelter from inside
14. Man manually operating gas filter
15. Various of people at coffee shop
16. Wide shot Tel Aviv skyline
STORYLINE
Underneath the plaza outside the Habima national theatre in Tel Aviv, Israelis have put the finishing touches on the country's most advanced public underground bomb shelter.
Accessible to those on foot by flights of stairs, it's usually a parking lot, four stories underground, secured by an armored door. It has space for 1,600 people, with drinking water stored in tanks mounted on the wall.
The project comes at a time of rising tensions with Iran.
And one Kadima party Knesset member doesn't think such protective measures are sufficient, given the threats he sees the country facing...
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A local hospital chief details some of the problems. In 48 hours, the shelter under the Sourasky Medical Centre can be transformed into an emergency ward with up to a thousand beds. But doing so won't be easy...
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Despite an elaborate network of neighborhood shelters all over the city, they probably can only accomodate around 250,000 people -- a fraction of the two million who live in and around Tel Aviv.
The last time the city faced direct fire was 1991, when Iraq launched rockets at it.
If Israel ends up in an open conflict with Iran officials figure the attack would be far more intense. In addition to Iran's own arsenal, Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, possess tens of thousands of rockets that could be fired at Israel. That has some authorities worried, even if residents seem relaxed about the situation at the moment.

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