President Biden promises Israel will get all the missile interceptors it needs.
Rockets fired by Palestinian militants from Gaza City are intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome defence missile system in the early hours of Oct. 8, 2023."We're going to make sure that Israel does not run out of these critical assets to defend its cities and its citizens," Biden said in remarks Tuesday at the White House.
The initial wave of rocket attacks by Hamas was larger than any seen in recent memory in repeated military conflicts between Israel and Hamas.The rocket attacks appeared to have at times overwhelmed Israel's Iron Dome system that, until now, has been largely successful in intercepting large numbers of rockets aimed at Israel fired by Hamas or Hezbollah, the militant group based in southern Lebanon.
Each Iron Dome battery consists of three to four launchers that can each carry up to 20 Tamir interceptor missiles.The mobile air defense system first became operational in 2011 and since then has had a very high success rate in intercepting rockets targeting Israel.The Israeli Defense Force has disclosed that in May, when Islamic Jihad launched a barrage of rockets towards Israel, 95.6 % of the Iron Dome interceptors launched by the system successfully destroyed incoming rockets.
The Iron Dome is typically located around cities or smaller populated areas that have been targeted in the past by incoming rockets.
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