IDF deploys Iron Dome in Tel Aviv

14 November 2017, 5:34 pm

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Amid heightened tensions with the Palestinian Islamic Jihad since demolishing the terrorist group’s border-crossing attack tunnel last month, the IDF has deployed an Iron Dome missile defense battery in the Tel Aviv area, Hadashot news reports.

A general view shows Israel’s Iron Dome defense system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, deployed in the Golan Heights near the Israel-Syria border, March 17, 2017 (AFP / JALAA MAREY)

Yesterday the army confirmed that a number of Iron Dome batteries had been deployed in central Israel but would not elaborate on their exact location, citing army policy.

The Iron Dome system, which is designed to shoot down short-range rockets and, in some cases, mortars, was deployed to counter the threats made by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorist group, which has vowed to avenge its members killed in the tunnel blast and its aftermath.