ISRAEL: Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv signalling a rocket attack on the city, explosion heard

Record ID: 397567

  • Title: ISRAEL: Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv signalling a rocket attack on the city, explosion heard
  • Date: 17th November 2012
  • Summary: TEL AVIV, ISRAEL (NOVEMBER 17, 2012) (REUTERS) RESIDENTS WALKING OFF ROAD FOR COVER AS SIREN IS HEARD PEOPLE TAKING COVER OFF THE ROAD VARIOUS OF PEOPLE TAKING COVER NEAR THEIR CARS PEOPLE RUNNING FOR COVER
  • Embargoed: 2nd December 2012 12:00
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  • Location: Israel
  • Country: Israel
  • Topics: Conflict,International Relations,Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVAB5I9MCA4DKFA5VMPRN660YXD2
  • Story Text: Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv on Saturday (November 17), signalling a rocket attack on the city, and an explosion was heard, witnesses said.
    A cloud of smoke was seen in the sky over the southern outskirts of Tel Aviv, Israel's commercial centre. Israel Radio said it appeared that an "Iron Dome" anti-missile battery had intercepted the rocket in mid-air.
    The Israeli military took delivery of a fifth Iron Dome anti-missile battery on Saturday and deployed it in the Tel Aviv area, the army said, underscoring concerns over the range of Palestinian rockets.
    Hamas's armed wing in the Gaza Strip said it fired a rocket at the city, the third such attack since Israel launched its air offensive in the enclave on Wednesday.
    Iron Dome was first deployed in April 2011 when it was fielded outside the southern city of Beersheba and shot down its first Gazan rocket.
    The system is truck-towed for easy transport, and Israel says it needs 13 of them for satisfactory nationwide defence Iron Dome, along with Israeli ballistic missile shield Arrow, has received extensive support from Washington, which seeks both to reassure and restrain the Jewish state in the face of the nuclear advances of its arch-enemy Iran.
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