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Here - as is the case with many Arab-majority communities in Israel - there are no public bomb shelters for its 38,000 residents.

Three hours after they returned from the wedding last Thursday evening, "we heard sirens and had to go to the bomb shelter," she told the BBC.

She and her friends took refuge in a concrete bomb shelter at the side of a road.

In a warehouse in southern Poland, by popular demand, one company has constructed a mock-up of a bomb shelter.

Estonia, for example, is introducing a new law that makes it mandatory for all new office and apartment blocks of a certain size to include bunkers or bomb shelters.