Iron Dome, Israel's Anti-Missile System, Changes Calculus of Fight with Hamas

(Washington Post) Griff Witte and Ruth Eglash - Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile system has proved remarkably successful at intercepting the incoming fire. The system is widely credited here with allowing Israel to endure more than 1,000 rocket attacks in the past week without a single fatality as of Monday night. To Israeli security officials, the success of Iron Dome is akin to that of the separation barrier between Israel and the West Bank, which they say helped bring an end to an onslaught of suicide bombings in the early 2000s.


2014-07-15 00:00:00

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