MOD achieves major advancement in Iron Dome Defense System
The Israel Missile Defense Organization along with others completed a series of interception tests of the Iron Dome defense system.
The Israel Missile Defense Organization along with others completed a series of interception tests of the Iron Dome defense system.
The IDF revealed that Hezbollah terrorists attempted to launch a cruise missile from a civilian residence, which was thwarted.
The Iron Dome has been working overtime as conflict between the IDF and Hezbollah ramps up, with Hezbollah targeting Haifa multiple times for the first time since the 2006 Lebanon War.
The Iron Dome, Israel’s premier air defense system, has been placed on high alert following Israel’s ‘Operation Pager’ which detonating thousands of Hezbollah communication devices and the airstrike in Beirut that killed 16 Radwan commanders.
The Iron Dome continues to work overtime as Hezbollah endangers innocent civilians by firing rockets and suicide drones into Israeli communities.
Hezbollah launched over 300 rockets at northern Israeli communities, some striking homes directly, many were intercepted, and no injuries were reported.
Hezbollah is using such attacks to practice its ability to fire combinations of UAVs, rockets and anti-tank missiles to overcome air defenses and hit targets.
The Iron Dome has been placed on full alert for weeks as Israel braces for an Iranian and Hezbollah attack in response to targeted assassinations in Beirut and Tehran.
Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed revenge for the targeted assassination of Fuad Shukr in Beirut, to which the IDF is actively preparing to counteract and retaliate severely.
Massive waves of drones were sent by Hezbollah on Saturday, with no injuries being reported and damage to multiple buildings.
The UAV posed no threat to Israelis residing along the border with the Hamas-ruled enclave, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
One of the rockets hit a factory in the Sderot industrial area, causing damage.
