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Posted By admin on May 20, 2021

ASHKELON, IsraelOn Sunday afternoon, as air-raid sirens sounded across this southern Israeli city, people abandoned cars in the middle of the road and ran to seek shelter. Hiding under a tree, a man tried to comfort his teenage daughter.

Dont worry, he said, it will be fine, the Iron Dome will save us.

As he spoke, the Iron Domes air-defense interceptor missiles streaked into the intense blue sky, making six rockets fired at Ashkelon by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas explode into faraway white puffs. As in the majority of cases since Hamas started raining rockets on Israel on Mondaya total of 2,800 by nowthere were no casualties or major damage.

Deployed since 2011 and built and maintained with $1.6 billion in U.S. funding, the Iron Dome system consists of a network of connected batteries and radars that fire at rockets that seem to be heading to populated areas and ignore those likely to fall into empty fields. While the system has been used in previous conflicts with Hamas, the Palestinian group has never fired as many rockets simultaneously.

What Hamas is doing now is trying to challenge the system. They thought that Iron Dome would stop functioning, but this didnt happen, said Danny Yatom, a former head of Israels Mossad intelligence service.

The rest is here:

As Hamas Rockets Rain on Israel, Iron Dome Proves It Can Withstand the Barrages - The Wall Street Journal

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