Israel Distributes New Gas Masks to Settlers
Al-Manar – 28/02/2010
Israel on Sunday began distributing new gas masks for settlers to use in a possible chemical or biological attack, the Israeli occupation army said.
Under the plan – drawn up by Col. Yossi Sagiv, head of the Israeli Home Front Command’s Gas Mask and Protection Kits Department – the masks will be returned to private homes by the Israel Postal Company, which beat out seven other companies in a Defense Ministry-issued tender in late 2009. Gas masks were collected from private homes starting in 2007 by a private delivery company.
The distribution is slated to take three years. Israeli officials said that after the distribution is completed in Or Yehuda, the Israeli army will review the operation, implement corrections and improvements and then start distributing the kits in other parts of the country, based on operational considerations of which area is under a more immediate threat.
The public will receive the same rubber gas mask that it had in the past with an improved filter – more effective against chemical and biological threats Israel faces – but without the syringe of Atropine that was in past kits.
Israel has long feared that chemical or biological weapons may be used against it in a future conflict involving Iran or Syria, but officials have insisted the distribution of the masks is not linked to any imminent threat.
The Zionist entity has carried out several large-scale defense exercises in recent years, and last week carried out a military-wide drill responding to a hypothetical attack from Lebanon or Syria.
In October Israel and the United States carried out their largest-ever air drill simulating the response to missile attacks.
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