\r\n\tIsraelis were digesting the horror of a Syrian backlash on Thursday with queues for civil defense kits lengthening amid expectations of a US-led military strike against the neighbouring coutrny.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tMost media on Thursday sought to ease fears of a Syrian backlash against staunch US ally Israel, which insists it is not a party to events across its northern border.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tThe Post said the regime's authorities are quite confident Syria will not commence hostilities against Israel, citing the regime's firepower.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's eight-member security cabinet in Wednesday authorised a limited call-up of reservists but the premier said in a statement that members of the public had "no reason to change their routines." Haaretz daily said that those to be called up numbered "a few hundred" personnel considered 'vital'.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tNews website Ynet reported on Thursday morning that "hundreds" of people were waiting outside a gas mask distribution centre in central Tel Aviv before it opened.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tPublic radio said that "thousands" of people were queueing at a distribution site in the northern city of Haifa, about 70 kilometres (43 miles) from the Syrian border at its closest point.<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tMaariv said that a centre in 'Jerusalem' (occupied al-Quds) was forced to close on Wednesday after anxious residents grabbed all the mask kits on the premises, in a scene the paper described as a "battleground."<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tNevertheless, Maariv reported, "security officials said that the situation assessment was that the likelihood of an attack on Israel was low."<\/p>\r\n
\r\n\tIn addition to gas masks the kits contain syringes of the anti-nerve gas agent atropine for self-injection.<\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2013-08-29 16:39:42","content_date_finish":"2013-08-29 16:39:42","content_date_register":"2013-08-29 16:39:42","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"120637","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":"3606701270","attach_date_register":"2013-08-29 16:41:03","attach_id":"113443","attach_file_ext":"jpg","attach_file_header":"image\/jpeg","attach_img_type":"2","attach_img_width":"122","attach_img_height":"77","attach_file_media":"1","attach_show_watermark":"0","score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"408","visit_date_last":"2025-05-09 16:15:47","attach_title":"Israelis fazed with a Syrian backlash","node_title":"news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":122, \"left\":2, \"right\":53}]"}]]