FILE - The Gaboa family, Bedouins living in Al-Furaa village in southern Israel, gather around the makeshift bomb shelter they made from two gravel trucks buried in dirt to protect them from incoming Iranian fire, June 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
Israel didn’t give permits to these Bedouin villages to build bomb shelters. So they built their own
BEERSHEBA, Israel (AP) — When the sirens wail in the southern Israeli desert to herald an incoming missile, Ahmad Abu Ganima’s family scrambles outside. Down some dirt-hewn steps, one by one, they squeeze through the window of a minibus buried under 10 feet (three meters) of dirt. Abu Ganima, a mechanic, got the cast-off bus […]
JULY 16, 2025
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