The IDF Home Front Command said on Thursday that even after the home front has been hammered by two major wars with Iran and years of ballistic missiles and rockets on multiple fronts, it still expects that it will take over 30 years to provide safe rooms nationwide.
Currently, the IDF Home Front says that only 67% of the population has safe rooms.
Projected switching over to safe rooms and building new safe spaces is set at around 1% per year, said the IDF.
Further, the military said that its most ambitious scenario would be to press the country to jump to 3% growth in safe spaces per year, a pace that would still leave large portions of the country vulnerable to Iranian ballistic missiles and other aerial attacks for at least 11 years.
There is currently no plan, even under consideration, to try to achieve full nationwide protection within two to five years, or anything close to that time period.
No one willing to carry out large-scale emergency safe room build
Essentially, the IDF Home Front's message on the issue was that no one is willing to carry out large-scale emergency rebuilding to add safe rooms, which would require large-scale temporary displacement, let alone large-scale demolitions of existing unprotected residences to make it easier to rebuild new units with safe spaces from the start.
Despite over 50 Israelis being killed by Iranian ballistic missiles in under a year, thousands being wounded, and over 40,000 property damage claims, without even getting into additional Israelis who have been killed, wounded, or lost their residences from attacks by Israel's other adversaries, the overall feeling from the IDF Home Front is that continuing such risks is less of a burden that the burden of an emergency program which would make more of the nation safer at a much faster rate.