Mass ran for gas masks: Tomorrow distribution hours will be expanded

Protective masks storming across the country: in some locations fights broke out during the long wait for the masks. Call centers are packed and HFC sites and Israeli Post are unable to manage with the huge amount of people.

Tel Aviv distribution station was closed today at 15:00 and dozens of people waited outside, some of whom had waited for hours.

Jerusalem today opened distribution centers in two locations, with thousands of residents of the capital and surrounding raided them. Distribution station opened in Hadar Mall in Jerusalem soon became the opening scene of the war, after dozens of residents looted all the assessments which were in place and led to the closure of the station.

Following the closing residents were forced to move to Shmuel Hanavi and wait in the distribution area and local community center for long hours. There too began an assault on the distribution station and Border Guard forces were called in to restore order.

Following the violence and urging reported today at Haifa, it was decided to move the station from the post office in Hadar neighborhood to the Sports Hall in Romema.

The station will operate from 9:00 am to 19:00 pm.

Likewise, the Postal Authority and the Home Front Command decided to expand the hours of operation for protection kits distribution points tomorrow at post offices across the country following loads and stresses recorded today. It was also decided that at this stage will not open extra points for distribution.

Hagana 137 in Tel Aviv from 19:00 to 08:00, Beit Shemesh 19:00 to 11:00, Shmuel Hanavi Jerusalem and Ma'aleh Adumim 19:00 to 11:00 a.m.and Maale Adumim 7:00 p.m. to 11:00.

There was criticism in Judea and Samaria that there was no protective kits distribution station in the area. Shomron Regional Council head Gershon Mesika said he had received calls from hundreds of people. "Our blood is not cheap," he clarified. "Judea and Samaria has 370,000 residents – six times more than Raanana and more than three times more than Kfar Saba. There is no reason there should not be here even one distribution point."

Security Officer Regional Council Yonathan Samchai, contacted the Home Front Command senior bodies to place a distribution point in Samaria, but it has not yet been done.

IDF were not moved, and placed the responsibility on Israeli Post. "There is no emergency so we do not extend the temporary station operations," said a military source. Israeli Post announces that it opens stations for the kits, but only under the guidance of the Home Front Command.

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