David K. Li is a senior breaking news reporter for NBC News Digital.
Israel designed its vaunted Iron Dome air defense system for instances just like this as rockets have rained down from Hamas militants in neighboring Gaza. The short-range system, which became fully operational in March 2011, has been 'tested consistently' and 'successfully prevented countless rockets from hitting Israeli communities,' according Israel's Ministry of Defense.
'Israel has at least ten Iron Dome batteries deployed throughout the country, each designed to defend a 60-square-mile populated area,' according to the CRS report. 'Israel’s Defense Ministry claims that Iron Dome successfully intercepted 97% of all targets it engaged during a summer 2022 confrontation in which Palestine Islamic Jihad fired rockets into Israel.
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