The IDF says it has deployed an Iron Dome anti-missile battery to the Gazan border city of Sderot, days after a rocket shot at the city damaged a home and a vehicle.
A second battery has been deployed outside the nearby city of Netivot.
Two Israeli soldiers stand near an Iron Dome battery near the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on March 13, 2014. (photo credit:AFP/David Buimovitch)
The move comes after a weekend that saw multiple volleys of rockets shot from Gaza at Israel, including one that landed in Sderot Friday night. No injuries were reported, but shrapnel hit a home and a bus parked outside.
Two rockets shot at Ashkelon were shot by a battery that had been placed there only days before, as officials girded for renewed rocket fire in the wake of increased tensions over the Temple Mount.
The rocket fire was claimed by a Salafi group in Gaza.
Israel responded by hitting targets in the Strip belonging to Hamas, which Jerusalem holds responsible for any rocket fire as the de facto rulers of Gaza.
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