(1 Aug 2024)
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Haifa, Israel – 1 August 2024
1. Various of people at beach and lifeguard tower
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Dafna Shelly, Haifa beachgoer:
“I’m not afraid of nothing. They can do whatever they…I trust my army, that what I can tell. I trust the Jewish brain. I am not trusting my leader, but the other things – the people in Israel and everything I trust and so is my relaxed feeling.”
3. Lifeguard tower with Israeli flag
4. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Micky Schwartz, Haifa beachgoer:
“No one likes to live in this situation. We live in the State of Israel. We love the State of Israel and I am the daughter of parents who survived the Holocaust, and the situation of fleeing away from here, going away, is not an alternative at all. That’s why we will live with what there is, we will do the best we can so that we can continue to live as best as possible, safely and hoping for better days”
5. Hospital beds in underground fortified hospital
6. Dr. Avi Weissman, Deputy Director at Rambam Medical Center speaking with patient
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr. Avi Weissman, Deputy Director at Rambam Medical Center:
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“It’s the only place in the world that was built as a hospital, and it converts into a garage. And we have now an underground hospital, functional underground hospital. We have no information as of now that we need to bring patients down here. However, we are ready at any minute. We do talk to our managers, head of departments here from all departments to be prepared. On the same time, we try to calm everybody down, we have no information that we are going to be under attack tomorrow or the day after tomorrow or in three days.“
8. Various of underground fortified hospital
9. Various of Weissman in control room
10. Entrance to hospital’s parking entrance
11. Israeli and hospital flags
STORYLINE:
Beachgoers in northern Israeli city of Haifa did not appear concerned amid rising tensions following the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and the strike against senior Hezbollah commander Fouad Shukur.
“I’m not afraid of nothing,” added Dafan Shelly, “I am not trusting my leader, but the other things – the people in Israel and everything I trust and so is my relaxed feelings.”
While locals appeared to be going on with their daily routine, a medical center in Haifa showed its underground ward Thursday, a parking lot converted into a state-of-the-art hospital floor, with beds slotted into parking spots.
The back-up ward was created after the 34-day war between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.
“Right now is the time that is the highest, highest chance for us to actually house this place. We have no information as of now that we need to bring patients down here,” said Dr. Avi Weissman, Deputy Director at Rambam Medical Center.
The pair of assassinations of anti-Israel militant leaders hours apart is threatening to set off a regional clash and upend already fragile talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza.
Hezbollah began firing rockets over the Lebanon-Israel border the day after the war in Gaza began, in what it described as a “support front” for Hamas.
Although the near-daily clashes have been deadly and have displaced tens of thousands in both Lebanon and Israel, they have remained mostly confined to the border region.
The deadly round of strikes, retaliation and negotiations escalated Wednesday when Hamas’ political chief, Ismail Haniyeh was killed hours after he attended the inauguration of Iran’s new president in Tehran.
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