Rocket warning sirens sound across Jerusalem in Home Front Command drill

A take a look at of rocket warning sirens came about in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning, the IDF introduced.

The sirens sounded in varied components of town between 10:05 a.m. and 10:45 a.m.

Jerusalem was lately cut up into 5 separate so-called alert zones, and every was examined at a special time interval. Residents of some neighborhoods had been capable of hear the sirens in different neighborhoods.

Residents of the realm had been requested to enter bomb shelters after they heard the sirens and to make sure that their shelters are properly stocked for an emergency.

Within the case of an precise assault, the sirens had been to sound twice, the army stated.

Jerusalem is a uncommon however occasional goal for rocket hearth from Gaza. The latest rocket alert siren within the capital sounded in Could 2021, marking the start of what turned the 11-day struggle between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.

After the preliminary rocket barrage towards Jerusalem final yr, Hamas didn’t hearth any additional missiles on the capital, house to the extremely contentious Temple Mount in addition to a large Palestinian inhabitants.

Previous to that, air raid sirens had not sounded in Jerusalem for the reason that 2014 battle with Gaza. Residents of Jerusalem and the encompassing areas have roughly 90 seconds from the sound of the siren to take cowl from an incoming rocket.

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