Acc to @idfelite missile defense system being deployed in north [13 hrs ago] after airstrike in Syria v @ILNewsAlerts pic.twitter.com/VkYAeZ7Slr
— Marian Houk (@Marianhouk) January 19, 2015
You don't think Hezbullah would be dumb enough or suicidal enough to try to hit back, do you? Heh. Labels: Hezbullah, IDF, Iron Dome, Islamic terrorism, Syria
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:13 PM
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Major (res.) Ran Levy, a social activist who heads the 'Hadromiyim' ('The Southerners') organization, that fights for the rights of residents of Israel's embattled south, accused the IDF of lying Sunday when it said the sirens that sounded in the morning hours were false alarms.
He insisted that rockets had, indeed, been fired from Gaza at southern Israel.
"I am an officer in the Home Front Command and I say, as a resident of Ashkelon, that there is no such thing as a false alarm and there never was,” he determined. “Once the system identifies a launch, it calculates within a short time the area in which the rocket is expected to fall, so there is no such thing as a false alarm.”
Levy alleged that the IDF is continuing to hide the truth from the residents of Israel for political purposes. “It may be receiving instructions from the prime minister and the defense minister, so that Israel is not required to respond, since we are in a ceasefire now. I regret to say that [Hamas] are continuing to equip themselves with raw materials, cement and iron, and carry out tests, and they tell us these are false alarms so that we do not respond.”
There were no false alarms during Operation Protective Edge, either, the officer said. “I don't believe the IDF Spokesman and the denials,” Levy repeated. “There were no false alarms during the war, so why are they occurring now? What are they waiting for? For a rocket or mortar shell to strike a school or kindergarten? And when that happens. G-d forbid, the government will have to resign, because it will not be able to lie to the citizens and I will not be the only one who doesn't believe the IDF Spokesman.”
The IDF Spokesman's Unit responded by simply stating: “The sirens that sounded this morning were false alarms.”Hmmm.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas rockets, IDF, Iron Dome
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:34 PM
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A system designed to detect infiltration tunnels proved successful in laboratory tests for the first time ever and is now being tested in the field, a senior IDF officer said Monday.Arutz Sheva adds:
If the field test proves successful, the system can be deployed around the Gaza Strip within approximately one year, the officer added.
The system will cost from NIS 1.5 billlion to NIS 2.5 billion to deploy.
The senior officer said that the IDF had received about 700 offers for anti-tunnel systems, and chose two.
The senior officer also spoke about the Iron Dome system and confirmed that the system worked well during Operation Protective Edge. However, he warned, “we cannot rest on our laurels: in the next campaign, the terrorists will try to improve the range of the missiles, the altitude of their trajectory and the amount of missiles launched each time. Therefore, the system must constantly update itself, and we are operating accordingly.
The Trophy defense system that protects armored vehicles from anti-tank missiles also worked efficiently in the war, the officer said. Another 3 billion shekels are required to provide protection for all of the vehicles. “Money was never the issue,” he stressed, “only providing the proper means [for protection].”
Various media reports over the years have described possible solutions as including sensors that would detect tunnels as they were being dug, massive trench digging contraptions that could create a deep protective trench around Gaza, and robots that could dig their way into tunnels and blow them up.Whatever we install around Gaza should also be installed around our northern border with Lebanon and probably the Syrian border as well. The borders with Jordan and Egypt seem like less of a priority right now.
Labels: IDF, Iron Dome, Israeli high tech, Operation Protective Edge, terror tunnels, Trophy system
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:39 PM
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Labels: Gaza, humor, Iron Dome
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:31 AM
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Labels: anti-Israel media bias, civilian casualties, human shields, Iron Dome, Naftali Bennett
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:26 PM
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Before the House vote on Friday, a tweeter who believes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians urged O’Rourke to “vote no” on the grounds that funding the Iron Dome means “funding atrocities.” Although the tweet does not explicitly state that the Iron Dome is an atrocity, it is clearly implied:Yeah, I know, retweets aren't necessarily endorsements, but....
@RepBetoORourke Vote no on any funding to the Iron Dome or to Israel. Stop funding atrocities.
— Mosh Miller (@Mosh_Lives) August 1, 2014
That got a RT from O’Rourke, which he quietly deleted 36 minutes later. Here’s that screencap again:
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, IDF, Iron Dome, Navi Pillay, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:06 PM
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Thank you Senator McConnell!For Immediate Release, Friday, August 01, 2014Senate Passes McConnell-Sponsored Funding for Israel’s Iron Dome Missile Defense System‘By passing this bipartisan measure, we send a message to Hamas that its terrorist tactics and its attempts to terrorize Israel’s populace will not succeed.’WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Senate today passed legislation sponsored by U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell that would allocate an additional $225 million for production of Iron Dome missile defense components so that Israel can maintain adequate stockpiles and defend its population from missile attacks launched by the terrorist group Hamas.“The Iron Dome missile defense system has played a critical role in defending Israel’s population from rocket attacks launched by Hamas from within the Gaza Strip,” McConnell said. “The Iron Dome system will remain essential to Israel’s security until a cease fire is achieved, and it will remain vital afterwards as well, because this defensive system helps blunt the impact of one of Hamas’ preferred tools of terror.”McConnell added: “By passing this bipartisan measure, we send a message to Hamas that its terrorist tactics and its attempts to terrorize Israel’s populace will not succeed. And we can help Israel defend its civilian population against indiscriminate attacks as it continues its campaign—Operation Protective Edge—to destroy the often-Iranian-supplied weapons stockpiled within Gaza.”McConnell introduced legislation to fund the request and called on Congress to approve the spending.
Labels: Iron Dome, Mitch McConnell, United States Senate
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:34 PM
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Among the UN’s long bill of particulars against the beleaguered Jewish state comes the almost unbelievable accusation that Israel’s refusal to share its Iron Dome ballistic missile defense shield with the "governing authority" of Gaza – i.e. Hamas, the terror group created to pursue the extermination of the Jewish state and now waging a terrorist war against it – constitutes a war crime against the civilians of Gaza.Had Navi Pillay and the 'human rights council' been around in 1945, she would have condemned the United States for not sharing the atomic bomb with Germany and Japan.
The UN chairwoman criticized the U.S. for helping fund Israel's Iron Dome system which has saved countless Israeli and Palestinian lives. "No such protection has been provided to Gazans against the shelling," she said.
Just because Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately aimed at Israeli civilian population centers without provocation and fires them from within its own population centers does not “absolve” Israel from its own legal violations, Pillay told reporters Thursday.
Labels: Hamas, Iron Dome, morons, Navi Pillay, United Nations Human Rights Council, World War II
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:23 PM
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To truly understand the current fighting in Gaza, it’s important to listen to Jamal Zakout. Zakout, a secular resident of Ramallah, is no fan of Hamas, as Amira Hass noted in her report in Haaretz last week (Hebrew only): He has held various positions in the Palestinian Authority, including spokesman for former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, took part in the Geneva Initiative (a nongovernmental effort to draft an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement), and opposed the “militarization” of the second intifada. Nevertheless, Hass writes, the fighting is bolstering Hamas’s status even among Palestinians like him, because “when Hamas manages, despite everything, to continue launching missiles at Israel and disrupting normal life there, Zakout says this restores their feeling of human dignity.”
This, in a nutshell, is why the Palestinian-Israeli conflict remains unsolvable, and why it produces spasms of violence with monotonous regularity: For too many Palestinians, including “moderates” like Zakout, “human dignity” derives from hurting Israelis–even knowing full well that the resultant Israeli counterstrikes will cause far greater harm to Palestinians.
This is something you would simply never hear an Israeli say, because Israelis see human dignity as stemming from saving life, not taking it. This doesn’t mean they oppose using military force in self-defense. Indeed, they overwhelmingly support the current operation: After absorbing 13,000 rockets from Gaza over the last nine years, they want the rockets stopped; they want children in the south to be able to grow up normally, instead having 45 percent suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder due to constant rocket fire, and they want people all over Israel to be able to lead their lives without disruption. But they would never say that dropping bombs on Gaza enhances their “human dignity”; they view war as an unpleasant necessity which they would much rather not have to engage in.
This difference in Palestinian and Israeli attitudes is epitomized by two technological developments that have become the darlings of their respective peoples: the Iron Dome anti-missile system and the M-75 rocket.
The M-75 is a technological marvel–a homemade medium-range rocket capable of striking Tel Aviv, developed despite stringent Israeli import restrictions aimed at preventing Hamas from doing just that. It’s a purely offensive weapon with no defensive purpose, and Palestinians love it. An enterprising Gaza merchant even named a perfume after it two years ago, when it was first deployed, and Reuters reported that sales promptly soared.
Iron Dome is also a homegrown technological marvel. But it’s the M-75’s mirror image: a purely defensive weapon with no offensive purpose. And that’s precisely why Israelis love it: Its purpose is to save lives rather than take them.Read it all. It shows why for the foreseeable future there won't be peace. It's not just the fascist 'Palestinian' leadership that is only interested in offensive weapons (as Gordon goes on to show). It's the fact that developing an M-75 instead of an Iron Dome makes Hamas more popular.
Labels: Hamas, Iron Dome, M-75 rockets, Palestinian education to hatred
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:35 PM
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A last-ditch effort to deliver aid to Israel during its war with Hamas died on the Senate floor, as Republicans blocked the proposal over concerns that it would increase the debt.
After Senate Republicans blocked Democrats’ $2.7 billion border aid package, which also included $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system and $615 million to fight Western wildfires, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid tried to split off the Israel and wildfire money as a standalone bill, hoping to put aside the dispute over border funding and appeal to Republicans’ deep ties to Israel.
“We’ve all watched as the tiny state of Israel, who is with us on everything, they have had in the last three weeks 3,000 rockets filed into their country,” Reid said. “Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel asked for $225 million in emergency funding so that Israel’s arsenal as it relates to the Iron Dome could be replenished. It’s clear that is an emergency, and we should be able to agree on that.”
It didn’t work.
Even though GOP leaders had vowed to pass an Israel aid bill in recent days, Republicans rejected Reid’s request. First Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) objected to Reid’s request for a straight emergency cash infusion for firefighting and Israel. Then Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) offered an alternative that would deliver money to Israel and the West and offer commensurate spending cuts to international organizations like the United Nations; Reid blocked that.
“Our number one ally — at least in my mind — is under attack. If this isn’t an emergency I don’t know anything that is,” Reid said.
“I want to fund Israel,” replied Coburn. “I also want to make sure our children have a future.”
The stumble on delivering $225 million for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, which is used to shoot down rockets aimed at Israel, infuriated GOP hawks who’d been pushing Reid to break the Israel funding from the border bill.
“It’s an important moment for the Senate and the House to show support for Israel. All I can say that if you don’t see the need to come to Israel’s aid now, and the message that it would send now, it would be a big mistake,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.). “Any person who thinks that the Iron Dome is unnecessary needs to go to the floor and tell us why, why we don’t need to help Israel right now. They’re asking for our help, they’re our best friend in the region, one of our best friends in the world. “I would have voted for Coburn's bill, but that actually could have drawn an Obama veto. And while Reid gets credit for trying to separate Israel, if you read between the lines of the article, he should have done so much sooner and was trying to use Israel to push the border bill through. But I'm disappointed with Cornyn....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Harry Reid, Iron Dome, Lindsey Graham, United States Senate
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:56 AM
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FAA weighing resumption of flight ban to Israel. Comes after Air Canada flight aborted landing during missile attack on Tel Aviv today.
— Daniel Nisman (@DannyNis) July 25, 2014
Labels: Ben Gurion Airport, Gaza, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:02 PM
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Labels: anti-missile systems, IDF, Iron Dome
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:36 PM
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Delta said it suspended service to and from its New York JFK hub "until further notice," while the Israel Airports Authority would only confirm that the carriers had suspended flight scheduled for Monday. US Airways has not yet released a statement.
United announced it was also suspending flights to and from Tel Aviv until further notice.
Transportation Minister called on American aviation companies to return to normal functioning, stressing that Ben-Gurion airport was safe from for take-offs and landings, and that there was no security concern for passenger planes.
"There is no reason for the American companies to stop their flight and give a prize to terror," he said.
Though media had reported that the US Federal Aviation Authority had ordered the cancellations, it did not issue any new guidance on flying through the region. The airline companies had acted on their own authority.
An order from the FAA could have had far greater repercussions for Israel's economy.
"As soon as the FAA gives such an order to US carriers, in most cases it's a domino effect, and most European carriers will be forced to suspend their flights," said an industry source.
Regardless, the source added, "This is a huge coup for Hamas."
Tourism accounts for about 5% of Israel's exports, and has already declined as a result of the rocket fire from Gaza.
According to Channel 2, Israeli and American flight officials are reportedly trying to come to an understanding regarding the US concerns over rocket fire.
Israel contends that the Iron Dome rocket defense system, which has proven to be 90% effective during Operation Protective Edge, is also capable of intercepting projectiles in the area of Ben-Gurion Airport.
The rocket which landed in the courtyard of a home in Yehud on Tuesday, causing damage and leaving two people lightly injured, marked the first direct hit in the greater Tel Aviv area since the Gaza operation began more than two weeks ago.There is an answer, but so far only El Al has bought into it. American Airlines (which recently merged with USAir) decided six years ago that the solution was too expensive.
"The FAA immediately notified US carriers when the agency learned of the rocket strike and informed them that the agency was finalizing a [Notice to Airmen]" prohibiting the flights.
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Delta diverted flight 468 from JFK with 273 passengers and 17 crew, Paris-Charles de Gaulle "after reports of a rocket or associated debris near the airport in Tel Aviv," and said that it was working to re-accommodate its customers.
While the FAA does not have jurisdiction over European or other international air carriers, the decision may lead to other cancellations.
"As soon as the FAA gives such an order to US carriers, in most cases it's a domino effect, and most European carriers will be forced to suspend their flights," said an industry source. "This is a huge coup for Hamas."
Air France suspended all flights to and from Israel due to "security reasons linked to the evolution of the local situation," Reuters quoted an airline spokesman as saying.The US issued a travel warning against traveling to Israel or Gaza this morning. Nevertheless, over 200 North American immigrants arrived here today.
Lufthansa, Swiss Air, and KLM also suspended flights to Ben Gurion.
Labels: Ben Gurion Airport, Delta Airlines, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:04 PM
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Labels: Hamas rockets, Iron Dome
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:02 PM
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He said, "There is no missile in the world today able to intercept missiles or rockets. Iron Dome is a sound and light show that is intercepting only Israeli public opinion, and itself, of course. Actually, all the explosions you see in the sky are self explosions. No Iron Dome missile has ever collided with a single rocket. Open spaces are a myth invented in order to up Iron Dome's current interception percentages. The rockets announced as intercepted by Iron Dome either never reach the ground, or are virtual rockets invented and destroyed on the Iron Dom control computer. To this day, no one has ever seen an intercepted rocket fall to the ground."
He continued, "What lands here is what's launched. The parts we see on the ground are from Iron Dome itself. We're shooting at ourselves, mainly virtually. The virtual rocket was invented in order to increase the vagueness surrounding Iron Dome. Assume that a real rocket arrives. What does the command and control system do? It creates nine more virtual rockets, and transmits their paths on computer graphics to the rocket launcher operators. The launcher operators see 10 rockets and launch 10 Iron Dome interceptors. People hear 10 booms, one rocket enters, and you get a 90% success rate."I agree that it's probably not fair not to count each missile that falls in 'open space.' We were told when Iron Dome was introduced that it would not shoot at missiles that are headed for 'open space' because of the disparity between the cost of each 'Palestinian' rocket (about $150 - although the longer-range rockets probably cost more) and the cost of each Iron Dome missile (now about $40-50,000). But we regularly see damage caused by rockets that fall in 'open spaces.' So yes, to really be 100% protection, Iron Dome would have to sport a 100% success rate, including rockets heading for 'open spaces.' Until that happens, the rocket fire has the consequence of interfering with daily life here (you have to turn on the radio for a few minutes and hear one rocket warning after the other around the country to understand from Jerusalem - which has bli ayin hara been relatively quiet - just how many rockets are being fired).
According to Dr. Shefer, Iron Dome is a part of a broad conspiracy, in which two interested parties afraid of peace are participating: the defense industries and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Iron Dome does exactly the opposite. It's those who can't give up the dream of the 'two-state solution' who are promoting Iron Dome. They're promoting the fantasy that we can separate from the 'Palestinians,' close ourselves in a disconnected cocoon and Iron Dome will ensure that no bad things get through.
Brigadier General (res.) Daniel Gold, who initiated Iron Dome, responded scornfully: "I won't make personal remarks here. Let him believe what he wants to believe. Anyone can see what the truth is here. All the interceptions to date are recorded and documented. We're the startup nation because of things like this, and this is much bigger than a startup. They put 300-400 of the most talented people here, who worked like crazy, with determination. It works."
Dr. Shefer's ideas for developing interception systems were universally rejected before Iron Dome was developed.Iron Dome does work. But it doesn't work with 100% effectiveness and it doesn't change the fact that the rocket fire continues to interfere with daily life here.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Middle East peace process
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:08 PM
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The IDF confirmed that two rockets were fired from Lebanon towards northern Israel and landed in open areas north of Nahariya on Saturday night. Rocket alert sirens sounded in the area of the attack in Nahariya and Shlomi.
There were no injuries or damage reported in the attack. In response, the IDF fired at the rocket launch zones in Lebanon with artillery fire.Meanwhile, Iron Dome shot down three rockets over Tel Aviv.
The IDF confirmed that the Iron Dome Rocket Defense system intercepted three rockets over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.
Rocket sirens blared in Tel Aviv and the surrounding towns of Ramat Gan, Ramat Hasharon, Bnei Berak and Givatayim.
Police said a man in Rehovot was lightly injured by shards of a rocket which fell from the sky once it was intercepted.
Sirens also blared in other the Ramle, Rehovot, Modiin, Jerusalem and other areas after 9:00 p.m. on Saturday.
Following the attack, the IAF struck the home in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza which contained a launcher used in the latest attack.
The armed wing of Hamas, Izzadin Kassam, announced that at 9 p.m. on Saturday they will launch long range, yet unused J-80 rockets at Tel Aviv. They made the statement on their website.For the record, the only siren in Jerusalem was at 6:57 this evening.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Hezbullah, Hezbullah rockets, Iron Dome, J-80 rockets, Tel Aviv
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:55 AM
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The sirens alerting Israelis to incoming rockets sounded Thursday afternoon in Jerusalem, Beyt Shemesh, Maaleh Adumim, Binyamin and Samaria regions.
Initial reports say Iron Dome rockets intercepted two missiles over Jerusalem.
Additional details are not yet available.This is the first time that we've had an alarm since Tuesday night.
Hamas terrorists on Thursday afternoon launched yet another heavy barrage of rockets at Israeli cities in the center of the country. Sirens were heard in Ramle, Lod, Nes Tziyona, Yavne, and other areas south of Rishon Lezion. Several of the missiles were destroyed in mid-air by the Iron Dome anti-missile defense system, while others fell in open areas. No injuries or damage were reported.
The rockets at the central plain cities were a continuation of the heavy barrage that Israel faced on Thursday, the third day of Operation Protective Edge. Six missiles were fired at Tel Aviv Thursday, with a barrage of four missiles fired at about 8 AM, as tens of thousands of commuters were driving into the Tel Aviv area. Two more missiles were fired at about 11:30 AM. All six were shot down by Iron Dome missiles. No damage to any buildings was reported, although several cars were said to have been struck by shrapnel. One woman was treated for shock in Ramat Gan, Magen David Adom officials said.
On both occasions, warning sirens were heard in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Bnei Brak, Holon, and Bat Yam. Hamas took responsibility for at least four of the rockets, with Islamic Jihad terrorists firing the other two.This cannot continue. While thank God there have been few injuries and little property damage, the country's economy cannot continue like this.
Iron Dome rockets intercepted two missiles over Jerusalem, out of a total of four that were fired at it. No one was directly hurt, but a 74-year-old man in Kfar Adumim suffered a serious head injury as he ran to the bomb shelter. He was taken to Hadassah Hospital where he is under anesthesia, and being artificially respirated.
"Four rockets were fired at Jerusalem, of which two landed in open areas and two were intercepted," an army spokesman told AFP, without giving further details.
Witnesses and Palestinian security sources told AFP one rocket struck near Maaleh Adumim, while a second hit close to an Israeli military prison near Ramallah.
Three loud blasts could be heard around the city shortly after sirens wailed, sending people scrambling for shelter, AFP correspondents said.
Labels: Beit Shemesh, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Jerusalem, Maaleh Adumim, Operation Protective Edge, Shuafat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:02 PM
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Three rockets were launched at Dimona in southern Israel on Wednesday afternoon. The Iron Dome intercepted one rocket before it could land, while two other rockets landed in open areas.
Dimona is the location of Israel's nuclear reactor. There was no indication that rockets damaged any part of the reactor.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the rockets, stating that it had been attempting to hit the nuclear reactor.
Militants from Hamas's Qassam Brigades said they had launched long-range M-75 rockets towards Dimona.
Minutes later the Iron Dome intercepted rockets in Ness Tziona , Yavne and Rehovot in central Israel as Gaza terrorists extended the range of their rockets on Operation Protective Edge's second day.
Earlier on Wednesday, two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip were intercepted over the Greater Tel Aviv area.
Code Red rocket alert sirens sounded in Holon and Bat Yam prior to the interceptions.A 90% success rate for this sort of thing is never good enough and certainly not when you're defending a nuclear reactor. What could go wrong?
No injuries or damage were reported in the attacks.
Labels: Dimona nuclear reactor, Hamas, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, M-75 rockets
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:23 PM
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Terrorists from Gaza fired a fresh salvo of around 30 rockets at Israel, and upped the ante further by striking deeper into the country than before.
For the first time, Color Red air raid sirens sounded in Jerusalem, and residents reported hearing a number of explosions. AFP claims its correspondents in the capital heard three explosions.
A direct hit was reportedly scored on a house not far from Jerusalem. No one was hurt.
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"In the case of a siren or explosion, residents should go to the closest protected area within a minute and a half and close all doors and windows and stay indoors for 10 minutes," the statement continued. "All residents are asked to continue to listen to instructions from the Home Front Command."I hope we have Iron Dome in Jerusalem. But we rely on God anyway.
Labels: Gaza, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Jerusalem, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:37 PM
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The Israel Airports Authority said no flights had been canceled at Ben-Gurion, some 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Gaza, as result of the hostilities, but takeoffs had been diverted to the east and landings to the north of the airport.
"Due to air force operations, Israel's civilian air corridor has been narrowed," it said in a statement. "There could be delays in takeoffs and landings."
Longer-range rockets in the arsenal of Hamas, the dominant armed group in the Gaza Strip, can reach the airport and other areas in central Israel. On Monday, air raid sirens, warning of possible rocket attacks, sounded in Israeli towns on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, but police said they were false alarms.
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Ben-Gurion remained open during Operation Pillar of Defense - Israel's 2012 eight-day air operation against terrorists in the Gaza Strip - and an Iron Dome battery was placed near the airport during that conflict.
Officials have not commented on whether the anti-missile system has been deployed near Ben-Gurion in the current upheaval.In 1991, Ben Gurion was mostly open during Gulf War I, but the foreign airlines all refused to fly in here. It took months to restore service to what it was, and even that came with the foreign airlines redoing their schedules to arrive late at night, leave early in the morning (within an hour or two) and to minimize the amount of time on the ground for both their planes and their flight crews.
Labels: Ben Gurion Airport, First Gulf War, Gaza, Hamas rockets, Iron Dome, Operation Protective Edge
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 9:11 PM
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