Iron Dome battery stationed near Eilat

Defensive weapon system, which has reduced the threat of Kassam rockets to communities bordering the Gaza Strip, is set up near Israel’s southern resort city

By Sam Ser 12 July 2012, 2:16 am

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The Iron Dome system in action near Ashdod (photo credit: Flash90)

The IDF has placed an Iron Dome battery of anti-missile missiles near Eilat, a few weeks after a Grad missile fired from Sinai landed within a few kilometers of the Red Sea resort city. Most of the area around Eilat is uninhabited, but a rocket strike on the city itself could have serious repercussions.

Iron Dome, which uses missiles to destroy incoming missiles, has successfully destroyed most of the Kassam rockets fired at Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip in recent months, reducing the threat and providing improved security to tens of thousands of residents who have been bombarded for years by Gazan terrorists.