“I don’t want to create the illusion that the Iron Dome defense system will provide a complete or comprehensive solution. The system is still in its experimental phase and in any case, we can’t deploy one to defend every house, every school, or every facility,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a Cabinet meeting in March 2011.
As the current crisis deepens, Israel heavily relies on the Iron Dome to protect Israel.
In the meantime, the IDF claims it is only making strategic strikes against the Hamas military infrastructure. They recently “took out” several top leaders, buildings where they claim missiles are launched from, and miles of the underground vaults and tunnels where Hamas militants keep their stores of weapons.
There is no doubt that although Israel has only launched a fraction of rockets compared to the other side they are doing massive damage in Palestine. And the strategic strikes are sometimes killing innocent citizens in the Gaza strip. And Israel is coming off as the aggressor since the Iron Dome is working, so well.
