Tag: Iron Dome

A drone was seen hovering over Abu al-Ata’s home and those of three other senior PIJ officials about two weeks prior to the attack.

According to Walla News, following the escalation in the south, the IDF is starting to call up reserve forces for the defense of the Gaza Strip envelope.

Baha Abu al-Ata normally surrounds himself with children as human shields, making it difficult to target him.

Gazan claim that they flew a drone over Zikim, the IDF claims they launched at a missile.

More than 400 rockets from Gaza aimed at civilian targets in mid-November 2018, wounding 55 Israelis. Two were killed.

Hundreds of people were sent racing for cover in southern Israel when the Red Alert siren activated.

To date, the United States has provided Israel $142.3 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance and missile defense funding.

Should Congress and the administration decide to suspend the aid to Israel, the move would introduce lost jobs and income to the tune of close to $40 billion over 10 years.

“Sderot residents are, on one hand, trying to keep to their normal routines. But on the other hand there’s no choice in our current situation but to go to a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.”

“Our resilience is not a blank check and I will not agree to allowing this to become our reality.”

The Iron Dome anti-missile defense system is deployed in various sites throughout southern Israel in response to threats of revenge by Hamas.

Local sources in Gaza said Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were evacuating “all resistance sites and security sites.”

While Hamas and the PA are half a billion dollar richer, Israel, with a growing budget deficit of more than 3% and counting, is licking its wounds.

The IDF announced that it had identified about 200 launchings, and that dozens of them had been intercepted by Iron Dome rockets.

The IDF said it was testing the preparedness of the military’s air defense and technical units as well as the batteries themselves.

Israelis were told they could expect to send their children to school on Wednesday – but that was before the overnight rocket attack.

Rocket fire that was headed towards populated centers was intercepted by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system.

At 9:05 PM the rocket alert went off in the Gush Dan / Tel Aviv region.

The exercise will involve a simulation in which the U.S. needs to provide the Jewish State with aerial missile defense.

The experiment was carried out against the background of renewed tensions in Israel's north.

“Based on an analysis of cost, schedule and performance, the Army [decided] ... to field two interim IFPC batteries of Iron Dome in 2020."

“Combat troops appreciate the importance of preserving nature in the area in which they operate.”

Rumors suggest Defense Minister Liberman plans to resign.

Iron Dome fighters have intercepted more than 100 of the 460 launches that were identified as having been fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory.

A bus was hit by a rocket.

The Red Alert siren was activated in the Central Negev region.

The transaction's value, if the report is true, is estimated at tens of millions of dollars, and the parties allegedly signed a commitment that the system would not pose a danger to Israel and its allies in the near or distant future.

Israeli fighter pilots bombed and destroyed a five-story building used as Hamas Internal Security Headquarters on Thursday afternoon.

Even as we publish this article, the numbers are already out of date...

As rockets fall and alarms go off, an interview with mother of seven, Devorah Goodman Horev in southern Israel.