27 mars 2011

           The IDF on Sunday deployed the first battery of the Iron Dome missile defense system near Beersheba, southern Israel's largest city. It is estimated that the battery will be fully operational in the afternoon. During the preparations for the deployment of the system, which uses cameras and radar to track incoming rockets and is supposed to shoot them down within seconds of their launch, Israel conducted a test during which rockets resembling Grads were intercepted. The... [Lire la suite]

             Israeli aircraft attacked a rocket-launching cell in north Gaza Sunday morning. The army said forces identified a hit. According to sources in the Hamas-ruled territory, two Palestinians were killed and three others were wounded in the strike, one of them seriously. The sources said the terrorists were travelling in the Jabaliya area when a missile fired from an Israeli warplane struck their vehicle. The IDF said they were making their way from Beit Hanoun,... [Lire la suite]