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IDF Deploys Iron Dome in Eilat.

Or Heller

4/4/2013

IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz said today that Israel will not allow the situation in the southern region to return to a state similar to the one that existed prior to operation Pillar of Defense. Gantz added that the south is strong and stable, prospering and calm, and that things are under control.

The IAF attacked two Hamas targets at night, for the first time since the operation in Gaza, located in Beit Lahiya in the northern region of the Gaza Strip. In the event that the fire of rockets from the Gaza Strip continues, the IDF is preparing to continue attacking more significant targets, despite the comprehension that it is not Hamas behind the fire, but Salafi organizations interested in challenging Hamas sovereignty in the Gaza Strip.

A Salafi organization named the Shurah Council of the Mujehadin, which carried out several terrorist attacks along the Gaza-Egypt border, has taken responsibility for firing rockets this morning towards Sderot, in protest over the death of a Hamas prisoner, who died of cancer yesterday at the Israeli Soroka Hospital.

In the meantime, the fifth Iron Dome battery which was put to use quickly during Operation Pillar of Defense, in order to protect residents of the Tel Aviv–metropolitan, was declared operational after undergoing maintenance. The battery joins the four existing system batteries, two of which have been deployed by the IDF in recent days. One of the batteries has been stationed in the northern region and the other stationed in the southern city of Eilat, in order to protect the city from harm caused by Global Jihad organizations located in the Sinai.

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