Israeli search and rescue team

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Israeli search and rescue team


Israel reorganized its civil defense rescue forces by combining four military search and rescue battalions into one brigade. Israel first organized a search and rescue battalion in the early 1990s, after being subjected to the attacks of Iraqi missiles by SCAD during the 1991 war of the year in the Persian Gulf. The new battalion was separated from the existing combat search and rescue units, designed to search and rescue pilots of downed aircraft and forces trapped in enemy territory.





The Israeli military believed that such rocket attacks, in addition to firing short-range missiles from militant groups in neighboring countries, were a growing threat, and that more search and rescue forces would be needed in the future. Since then, members of these Israeli search and rescue forces have often flown abroad to save civilians affected by earthquakes. At home, the search and rescue forces didn’t have much work to do, but there was always the need to prepare for major attacks.




Israel remembered this threat in 2006, when Hezbollah fired missiles from southern Lebanon around Israel’s 4000. The victims of these missiles were 44 civilians and about a dozen soldiers, and more than 1400 people were injured. Rocket attacks also damaged hundreds of buildings and forced more than a million Israelis to periodically hide in bomb shelters for four weeks. Although the hundred missiles launched in Israel accounted for about one Israeli dead for search and rescue teams, there was a lot of work. As the conflict progressed, the number of casualties among the Israeli civilian population decreased, and this was due to the fact that the groups launching rockets were depleted and were under great pressure from the Israelis. On the last day of the campaign, 250 rockets were fired, and only one Israeli was killed. But until the very end there was a danger for a large number of civilians to be trapped in damaged buildings. 2006's experience of the year forced Israel to monitor the missiles, the missile forces of their enemies and the harm they could cause and, accordingly, adjust the size of their civil defense forces.



Before Syria plunged into a civil war in 2011, Israel assumed that around 3300 people would suffer in Israel (including before the 200 people would die) if Syria used its long-range missiles with conventional warheads against Israel. If the Syrians used chemical warheads, then the number of victims from Israel could reach 16000 people. More than 200000 Israelis would be left homeless, and it was thought that about 100 000 people would try to leave the country. The search and rescue forces would be busy getting people out of the rubble and helping the victims of the chemical weaponsand also to those many seeking to leave the infected areas.



While at the moment the Syrian threat has decreased as a result of the civil war, Hezbollah still has more 20000 missiles in southern Lebanon and Hamas has about half of that number in Gaza. There is also the threat of long-range missiles coming from Iran. This forces Israel to constantly revise its approach to dealing with the consequences of all this for the civilian population. This includes the construction for civilians of reinforced "security rooms" in new homes and the care of recently distributed new gas masks. But when rockets really start falling, the search and rescue team must have all the right answers and take the right steps to cope with the consequences.

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  1. +10
    19 August 2013 11: 29
    Two times a year, exercises are conducted at our plant together with firefighters and civil defense, all over the factory they weigh containers in which are overalls with oxygen masks and everyone knows their functions, almost like in the USSR, when I ran the Union, I ran with a Geiger sensor, and then rescue work
  2. +11
    19 August 2013 11: 36
    A friend in the reservist service in the Second Lebanese was in such a detachment.
  3. +4
    19 August 2013 21: 00
    Quote: igor67
    Two times a year, exercises are conducted at our plant together with firefighters and civil defense, all over the factory they weigh containers in which are overalls with oxygen masks and everyone knows their functions, almost like in the USSR, when I ran the Union, I ran with a Geiger sensor, and then rescue work

    Hi Igoryanich. and what I get up at work. completely with these teachings got. I'm not talking about the mandatory 3-day (annual) first aid course.
  4. +6
    19 August 2013 21: 45
    Well done. The Israel Defense Forces are a true army. people's army. Nowhere in the world is there such a relation of the people to the army. Therefore, she is invincible.
  5. faraon
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    20 August 2013 00: 16
    We also took a weekly course of civil defense, and first aid, we started a company in the city to change gas masks. Why would this be?

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