Defenseworld.net – May 12, 2021
Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system. Click to enlarge
Over the past few days, Israel has been attacked with rockets from Palestinian fighters, some which have got past the country’s much publicized ‘Iron Dome’ defensive system designed to block rocket barrages.
Various reports put the number of rockets fired from the Palestinian side as between 500 to 1500 over the course of 3 days. According to Israeli reports, some these rockets hit homes killing 2 persons and others struck an empty bus setting it on fire and injuring three people nearby.
70 rockets in 30 minutes
A report from Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim from the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, said Hamas’ armed wing fired their “largest barrage” yet from the enclave towards Israel- 70 rockets were fired in 30 minutes.
Palestine’s Dunya Al Watan news portal reported that the Al-Qassam Brigade, the military wing of Hamas movement that controls the Gaza Strip, said it had launched 100 rockets towards the Israeli city of Beersheba early on Wednesday. In addition, a missile strike from Gaza targeted one of Tel Aviv districts early on Wednesday, a TASS correspondent reported from the scene.
90% rockets destroyed
On Tuesday, the Israeli military said that 90 percent of rockets that reached Israeli airspace were destroyed by Iron Dome. Roughly 500 missiles had been fired from Gaza since the start of the conflict, military officials said as quoted in Israeli media.
However, even admitting that 10% of the rockets got past ‘Iron Dome,’ it still is a large number of rockets and missiles. The sheer number of projectiles fired towards Israel may have overwhelmed the Iron Dome system, some reports quoting western analysts said.
However, a report in Washington Post said some defense analysts question those numbers (of blocking 90% of rockets), arguing that the Israeli figures for successful interception are unreliable and that groups including Hamas and Islamic Jihad that fire rockets and artillery from Gaza have adapted to the system.
Iron Dome upgrade
The rocket firing by Hamas comes at a time when the Iron Dome has been upgraded to handle the next level of threats.
In March this year, the Israeli Ministry of Defense (MoD) had announced an upgrade to the Iron Dome system that enhances its ability to address evolving threats such as UAVs, missiles and rocket barrages.
An Israeli official, the head of the Mapat wall administration, Moshe Fattal was quoted as saying in an Israeli MoD release, “10 years after the first operational interception of the Iron Dome system, we are today completing a technological leap in the system’s capabilities. In three series of experiments within a few months, we have jumped the capabilities of the Iron Dome system into the next generation of threats: complex, loaded and challenging missile and rocket barrages, clusters of unmanned aerial vehicles and more.”
Israeli Minister of Defense, Bnei Gantz was also quoted in the release: “The Israeli technological superiority provided through the Iron Dome and the multi-layered defense system is a cornerstone of Israel’s defense….thanks to which the citizens of Israel can sleep peacefully.”
regular IDF patrols search houses and buildings all arms were confiscated long ago
It is well known that these rockets are always fired onto israel wasteland
because they are fired by disguised IDF teams
gaza is the next part of plestine to be cleared of arabs
such places in the UK as old army bases a huge RAF base and camp
is being prepared for the people of gaza who will be expelled
Goliath has been hit with the first stone.
Jewish disinformstion to justify the usual blood letting of the Palestinian people.
There is no way, this could have been prepared in secret…
It is well known that hamas is a mossad front, it fires rockets into empty land and this gives Israel the excuse to then attack Palestine and destroy infastructure and Palestinians, it is a typical false flag, just like on 911 and the WTC.
Can anyone really trust the news coming out of the UK, the US or any other nation these days? How do we know who really shot off the rockets? If in fact the Palestinians did that they would know of the quick and brutal reprisals to come.
@ JIMMY KENNEDY
YES i too believe it is israels next strategy to throw out all
palestinians to europa as they already did with africans .
cooking an european meal for the jews .
@ jimmy kennedy
yes its israels next move to throw out all palestinians to eoropa
since they had already experience with their africans and Soros´
flooding of illegals africans + islamists + cia/ MI6 helping them.
If 10%(or higher) of Palestinian rockets are getting through, imagine how many will get through if Israel starts a war with Iran. And Iran has many bigger and better rockets.
@ harry
Thanks for the brutally honest assessment. Occams Razor, thesis, anti-thesis, synthesis
Waste not want not; Palestinians make a good missile to be thrown at Whitey.
90% of the rockets destroyed is the claim just like GHW Bush Gulf War 1.
Both are laughable baldfaced lies. Shooting at a rocket only works when the engine is providing thrust, then it coasts the rest of the way as a projectile, and shooting at it with a missile takes a direct hit to change it’s trajectory, that is why most are going to make it the ground – and how is the patriot missile going to disable the fuse?
The headline should read “Patriot Missile defense useless, Iron Dome is a Fail”
And if “ALMIGHTY GOD” is protecting Israel, then why do you need any anti-missile missiles? Eh? Ever think of that you damn fools?
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Debka article:
Palestinians hit Israel with 850 rockets. IDF takes out Hamas officers. Mixed towns tense
May 11, 2021 @ 21:39
https://gulflink.health.mil/scud_info/scud_info_refs/n41en141/Patriot.html
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TV documentary: US lied about Gulf War missile “hits”
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2003/02/cbc-f07.html
Yes, indeed @ harry & @ Truthy1.
Hamas is affiliated to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in 1930 in Cairo by operatives from M.I.6.
Hamas is, in fact, a Freemasonic-front organization, controlled from Vauxhall via Tel Aviv.
It very much helps our understanding to know so.