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May. 13, 2021 8:57 PM
Hamas demonstration of its abilities in recent days, culminating in the massive rocket barrages into central Israel, forced the military to bolster its efforts in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday. Alongside the preparations for the next phase, the army has been striving to cast a positive light on everything that has happened so far.
The government and military have been wildly praising their own accomplishments, particularly the assassination of leaders of Hamas military wing. The hope is to somehow compete with the enemy s accomplishments. But this seems a hard sell – Israelis aren t fully convinced, one of the reasons that the flare-up might continue.
Photo Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90
A bus which was directly hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza strip, into Holon, central Israel, injuring a few. on May 11, 2021.
The Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations continued their massive bombardment of Israeli cities in towns, broadening their radius of fire on Tuesday night to the Tel Aviv area and as far north as Netanya.
The terror groups have launched some 1,000 rockets at Israel, killing an Arab father and his daughter in a village near the town of Lod, and a woman in Rishon Lezion on Tuesday night, and inuring tens of Israelis, most of them suffering from light injuries and shock.
Thea Jacobs
May 12 2021, 6:17 ET
THE Iron Dome in Israel is the first missile interceptor of its kind in the world, and is said to have a 90 per cent success rate at bringing down targets.
Thousands of rockets have been intercepted by the mobile air defence system, including during violent clashes with Gaza in May 2021. Here s the lowdown on the high tech system.
4 The Iron Dome is part of Israel s defence system and can intercept rockets launched from GazaCredit: AFP
What is the Iron Dome?
The Iron Dome is a mobile, all-weather air defence system in Israel designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and 155mm artillery shells fired from a distance of 4km to 70km.