However, I googled for info on bomb shelters for both Israel and Gaza. Israel has lots of shelters (as well as safe rooms in apt bldgs) for their civilians, Hamas does not.

Wtf?! Didn’t you just say you didn’t trust… I mean… Why would… **head explodes**

Sorry, don’t understand your comment. Don’t trust what?

Trust that there are shelters in Israel? There was never any doubt in my minds that Israel had bomb shelters. In fact, other safeguards as well— reinforced rooms in large buildings that were easier to reach than shelters. Even large concrete pipes for use in a pinch. Even other similar things… — I’ve known that for years.

Whether or not there are shelters in Gaza? That I did not know. But the issue if whether ir not there were shelters in Gaza never crossed my mind. Until a few days ago. I was watching coverage on al Jazeera, and the footage they showed was of people running out of houses. The announcer mentioned that they had no place to go—no place to hide! At the time I didn’t make the connection, but later had the thought: why don’t they go to their bomb shelters the way people do in Israel? Then i realized that perhaps they didn’t have bomb shelters. (Given the nature of Hamas, I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t provide them, at least not for civilians.)

So I Googled, and couldn’t find any evidence of civilian shelters in Gaza. Not from Arab sources,not from Israeli sources, not from major “neutral” news media. So the conclusion I came to is that, until proven otherwise, is that al Jazeera was correct— they had no shelters to go to.

However, in terms of trusting that report on al Jazeera and also what I googled, I did say this (in a comment above):

I googled for info on bomb shelters for both Israel and Gaza. Israel has lots of shelters (as well as safe rooms in apt bldgs) for their civilians, Hamas does not. (Now it is possible I may have missed something. So if you are interested and have some time, I recommend you do the same. Perhaps you can find some information about shelters H. has built for Gaza ‘s people. I strongly doubt that they did, but its possible I am wrong).

P.S: When was the last time you heard someone say that in an Internet discussion (“I may be wrong”). LOL ….