quote: ... Refugees in Tel Aviv say they have received no instructions on what to do under attack. Those in detention centers in the south say the instructions are not clear and the fortified rooms are often locked up when the siren goes off. The main problem among the thousands of refugees concentrated mainly in Tel Aviv’s southern neighborhoods is the absence of instructions in their own language. Gabriel Sekela, a refugee from Eritrea living with his family in south Tel Aviv for seven years, told Haaretz, “This is a new experience for us. Like everyone else, we’re frightened when bombs go off, but we don’t know what to do when the siren is heard. We’ve received no help from the authorities.” “During the day the children are in kindergarten where there’s a protected space, but later we’re all at home. We didn’t know we had to go out to the stairwell,” he said. “Now a friend told me that when the alarm sounds we have to go to the stairwell, but we haven’t received any official instructions on what to do.” Sekela said most people don’t understand the news or know what is happening. “We saw there was information from the army on Facebook in Tigrinya [spoken by many Eritreans] and spread it, but I don’t know how many people got it,” he said. ...
Posted on: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 22:10:38 +0000
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