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Inside Israel’s Iron Dome defense system
The Israeli military says Hamas has launched more than 6,000 rockets in the last 10 days, most of which have been intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system. Many consider it to be the world’s best defense against missiles and rockets. Here’s how it works.
14m ago / 7:44 PM EDT
Israel’s U.N. ambassador compares cease-fire to ‘putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound’
Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations downplayed calls for a cease-fire in its war with Hamas saying it would be “like putting a Band-Aid on a bullet wound.”
“Such steps will not eradicate the cancer that is Hamas,” Gilad Erdan, Israel’s permanent representative to the U.N., said at a Security Council meeting today.
Erdan emphasized that just 11 days had passed since Hamas launched a series of terror attacks inside Israel that targeted civilians. He accused the council of being “fixated only on humanitarian corridors and aid.”
“These are important and noble causes, but they are certainly not a solution to prevent Hamas’s next atrocious massacre,” Erdan said.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian representative to the U.N., said Israel was “seeking blind vengeance.”
“Those who cannot or will not call for a cease-fire will lose any credibility, any authority, and share some of the responsibility for the devastation that is occurring now,” Mansour said.
52m ago / 7:06 PM EDT
Drone video reveals…
