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Israel Announces Upgrade Of Iron Dome Rocket-defence System To Cope With Aerial Threats
Israel’s Defense Ministry announced that it has completed an upgrade of the country’s Iron Dome rocket-defence system to cope with array of aerial threats.
Israel’s Defense Ministry on March 16 announced that it has completed an upgrade of the country’s Iron Dome rocket-defence system in a bid to cope with an additional array of aerial threats. According to AP, the ministry’s head of missile defence, Moshe Patel, said that the Iron Dome has completed a series of tests that included successful interceptions of rocket and missiles salvos as well as simultaneous interceptions of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles. The Iron Dome was developed to intercept short-range unguided rockets and has shot down some 2,500 incoming projectiles fired from the Gaza Strip since it was deployed a decade ago.
Hezbollah delegation in Moscow receives Israeli warning: Don’t do like the Houthis
The Russian side, headed by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, raised the issue of Lebanon’s government crisis with Hezbollah.
Tuesday 16/03/2021
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov meets with Lebanon’s Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc head Mohamed Raad in Moscow on March 15, 2021. (AFP)
MOSCOW Western diplomatic sources revealed that Russian authorities passed onto the Lebanese Hezbollah delegation, which began a three-day visit to Moscow on Monday, a message from Israel that Tel Aviv will not put up with military escalation by the militant Shia party from southern Lebanon.
The same sources said that Israel asked Moscow to relay the message to Hezbollah in the wake of an Israeli arms build-up in southern Lebanon in recent weeks despite UN forces being stationed there.