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From JP:

"Iron Dome intercepts second rocket over greater Tel Aviv"

For the second time on Tuesday evening, a rocket was launched at central Israel from the Gaza Strip.

An Iron Dome battery intercepted a projectile over the greater Tel Aviv area.  Sirens sounded in various cities in central Israel on Tuesday night and blasts were heard in Tel Aviv. The air raid siren was activated in cities including Rishon Lezion, Bat Yam, Holon and Bnei Barak, but not in Tel Aviv. Earlier on Tuesday evening, the Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted a projectile near Tel Aviv over the city of Rishon Lezion, as air raid sirens sounded in central Israeli cities for the first time amid recent escalations.  No injuries or damage were reported in the attack, which marked a widening of the range of rocket fire the Gaza Strip.   Israeli television showed a double-burst of smoke in skies above Tel Aviv after air raid sirens sounded, sending residents running for shelter.

Air raid sirens sounded in all of Gush Dan, including Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva, Lod and Givatayim. It was the first Gaza rocket that reached Tel Aviv since Operation Pillar of Defense in 2012. Following the attack over central Israel, the Home  Front Command instructed the Tel Aviv Municipality to open public bomb shelters in the city. The Home Front Command had earlier instructed Tel Aviv residents to prepare for utilizing protected rooms and shelters in their private homes. Under the same instruction, the division responsible for civil security ordered for bomb shelters in Tel Aviv schools to be opened.  The IDF launched Operation Protective Edge in the early hours of Tuesday morning in order to quell the ongoing barrage of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Later in the day, the IDF begun actively calling up 40,000 reserves approved to it by the cabinet. Palestinian rocket fire from Gaza continued to pound southern Israel throughout Tuesday, with some 80 rockets landing in Israeli territory by the evening. Iron Dome made 23 interceptions throughout the day, shooting down projectiles over Ashdod, Ashkelon, and Gaza border communities. Meanwhile, the Israel Air force struck 150 targets in Gaza, and Palestinians reported multiple casualties in a number of the strikes.

Some 100 underground rocket launchers and ten attack tunnels were among the targets.

^ When will Hamas learn they can shoot their rockets and missiles at Israel, but they won't ever win their goals like that. It has never worked in the past and definitely won't work since Israel has the Iron Dome. Hamas was able to reach Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in 2012, but Iron Dome shot down the majority of the rockets with the rest landing in unpopulated areas. The Israelis no longer have to fear any threat from Hamas. They still should go to their bomb shelters, etc. Hamas doesn't seem capable of understanding that they can put all their force against Israel and yet they will never win. They (Hamas) also try to complain when Israel retaliates and bombs the Gaza Strip (where Hamas is located and where the rockets come from.) You can't bomb someone and then try and claim to be the martyr when you are bombed back. It was wrong for anyone to attack the Palestinian-American kid (which the Israelis have since arrested people who are suspected to be at fault and will out them on trial) but it was worse for the Palestinians (probably Hamas) to murder the three Israeli kids. I wonder if this latest Hamas terrorist action will make the Palestinians living in the West Bank (who recently voted to join with Hamas) to rethink that stupid decision since being allies with a terrorist group makes you part of that terrorism. I have no doubt that Israel will prevail as they have against every war, suicide attack, missile attack, etc since they became a country in 1948. If the Arabs and Muslims who call for their destruction would only realize the facts they would stop attacking them and thus stop losing. ^

http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Iron-Dome-intercepts-second-rocket-over-greater-Tel-Aviv-361994