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Negev towns give up on gov't and find their own protection
By Haaretz Staff and Channel 10
Tags: Western Negev, Qassams 
Haaretz.com/Channel 10 daily feature for June 16, 2008.

The residents of the western Negev, who endure daily Qassam rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip, have taken matters into their own hands in order to protect themselves.

Despite that fact that the Defense Ministry set aside money to provide small aboveground concrete shelters for the communities near the Gaza border, it gave the government contract to only one company.
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And that company, which is expected to serve 50,000 residents, doesn't have the capacity to build more than ten shelters a week.


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