International [Arab-Israeli Conflict, v4] Israel Sets Goal of Doubling the Jewish Population on the Golan Heights

brother will kill brother..
spilling blood across the land
killing for religion..
something I don't understand.
 
Package-tour diplomacy: Thousands of Israeli tourists flock to Dubai after peace deal
By Steve Hendrix| Dec. 14, 2020

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DUBAI — Ashish Negi prides himself on spotting the nationality of tourists as soon as they walk into his jewelry store — so he can be jokey with Americans, chatty with Brits and ready to bargain with Russians — but he was baffled by the man in the tall black hat and the curly sideburns who came in last week.

“This was something I had not seen in Dubai,” Negi said of the first ultra-Orthodox Jewish visitor to reach his corner of the city’s traditional gold market, part of a wave of Israeli tourists who have descended on the United Arab Emirates in recent days. “It is very good to have new customers to learn about.”

In the two weeks since commercial flights began between Tel Aviv and the Emirati cities of Dubai and Abu Dhabi, Israelis have caused a remarkable tourism boomlet in the Persian Gulf nation. Suddenly, Hebrew can be heard throughout the markets, malls and beaches of a destination that was strictly off-limits until the two countries achieved a diplomatic breakthrough in August and established normal relations.

More than 50,000 Israelis have brushed aside covid-19 concerns, a terrorism warning and decades of tension to make the three-hour flight across the Arabian Peninsula. Israeli tourism officials expected more than 70,000 to arrive during the eight days of Hanukkah, which began last week, in an unprecedented exchange between the Jewish state and one of its historically standoffish Muslim neighbors.

The first Israelis to arrive described a congenial culture clash unlike anything they have experienced in the region.

“This is much warmer than what we felt in Jordan or Egypt,” said Arieh Engel, naming the two Arab countries that have long had official relations with Israel, but not particularly friendly ones.

On his fourth day in the UAE, Engel had just had “Happy Birthday” sung to him in Arabic, English and finally a halting Hebrew by the staff of the Arabia Tea House in Dubai’s Old City. “It feels like they really want us here,” he said.

The diplomatic deals reached since the summer between Jerusalem and the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and, just last week, Morocco have broken the long chill between Arab countries and Israel. Palestinians leaders accuse these Arab countries of betrayal by normalizing ties with Israel while it still occupies the West Bank and blocks the creation of an independent Palestinian state.

But the UAE’s incentives for opening relations with Israel were significant. The ties look to be a boon to the UAE’s tourism industry and potentially worth billions of dollars in foreign investment in high tech, agriculture and arms.

“They are so rich here,” marveled Reem Iluz, a Tel Aviv construction engineer loaded down with bags in the palatial Dubai Mall, somewhere between the 2.6 million-gallon aquarium tank and the 19,000-square-foot ice rink. “They have a lot to lose if there is no peace.”

Engel and his wife, Adina, booked a seven-night, $1,800 package tour as soon as it was advertised in November, in part because they were desperate to travel after 10 months of coronavirus restrictions. But the couple also share the common Israeli yearning to feel welcome in their own region.

“To me this feels like the Iron Curtain lifting,” Adina said.


Both governments have worked to start the tourism machinery turning, with some hiccups.

Each country declared the other a covid “green country,” allowing visitors to travel back and forth without quarantining. But Israel’s Health Ministry briefly flipped the UAE’s status to red last week, panicking Israelis who thought they would have to isolate after all when they returned home. The agency quickly reversed the call at the behest of the Foreign Ministry.

Security, too, has caused concern. After the assassination last month of a top Iranian nuclear scientist, an attack widely ascribed to Israel, its National Security Council urged Israelis to avoid travel to the UAE out of fear that Iranian agents would target them. The warning didn’t have much impact, according to tour operators.

“They didn’t actually say not to go, which they do in some cases,” said Yaniv Stainberg, the general manager of Privilege Tourism. “People had questions, but nobody canceled.”


Tour companies in both countries are holding Zoom courses to educate each other on customs and etiquette. Hotel managers in the UAE have added menorahs to their lobby Christmas decor.

One desk manager said she told her housekeepers to look the other way if they saw signs of Hanukkah candles being lighted in the rooms, as long as it didn’t look too hazardous.

Treat Gourmet, a longtime catering company in Dubai, converted itself into a kosher food provider in a matter of weeks, as did a military officers club in Abu Dhabi. The local Jewish Community Center has a contract with Abu Dhabi tourism officials to train and certify almost 150 hotel kitchens as kosher-compliant.

In the meantime, chefs are doing what they can. Some have learned temporary fixes that will satisfy the less-strict kosher-keepers, such as cooking fish in foil to insulate it from a non-
kosher oven.


“They have really worked hard to help us,” said Yossi Herzog, a guide with Israel’s Millennium Travel who was leading the company’s second week-long Dubai tour. Seven of his 160 Israelis keep kosher, and the Hyatt Regency Dubai Creek Heights has scrambled to feed them.

“Fortunately, all the meats here are already halal, which is a huge advantage,” said Arun Narayanan, a food and beverage manager at the hotel, referring to Muslim rules of butchery that are similar to kosher requirements.

Still, the demand is likely to overwhelm supply for months to come. “I strongly recommend to not leave the crackers and tuna fish cans at home!” one Jewish travel site warned observant visitors to Dubai.

The Jewish Community Center, which previously served a tiny population of business visitors and residents, is staffing up from about five employees to about 30 as it becomes the help center for incoming Israelis, according Rabbi Mendel Duchman.

“We’re getting about 300 emails a day,” he said. Visitors want to know where they can eat and pray and find a mikvah, the ritual bath that observant women visit monthly. Looking at the boom times ahead, the JCC is preparing to build one befitting Dubai’s luxury standards. “It will probably be the nicest mikvah in the world,” Duchman said.

For Dubai’s first public Hanukkah, the JCC is holding a nightly extravaganza at the base of the 163-story Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building. Hundreds of Israelis dance, while the music of singers and a DJ flown in from Israel echo off the surrounding towers.

“I really think this is the best place to be a Jew,” Duchman said above the noise.

Most of the Israeli tourists are not particularly religious, leaving them free to tour over the Jewish Sabbath. Herzog had his tour at full speed Saturday, pinging via bus and water taxi from the Old City to the spice and gold souks to the sprawling Global Village cultural expo.

He has partnered with Norman Ali Khalaf, the self-described dean of Dubai tour guides. Israeli companies hired Khalaf to brief their own guides on the do’s and don’ts of travel in the conservative country (Don’t kiss in public. Don’t cut in lines. Shouting is frowned on and swearing can be fined).

Some tour companies are offering their clients a tutorial of their own, given that Israelis have a reputation even among themselves as boisterous visitors.

But it would be hard to imagine anyone more boisterous than Khalaf, who bounded aboard the bus wearing a Palestinian kaffiyeh around his head, greeting the group in booming Arabic and Hebrew. Within minutes, he was dancing in the aisle with a retired police officer from northern Israel.

Khalaf’s grandfather was a Muslim from Jaffa, now located in Israel, who married a Ukrainian Jew, and Khalaf considers himself emblematic of Dubai’s reputation for religious tolerance. He pointed out Hindu temples and Christian churches along the way.


At a small art gallery in the Old City, he described an oil portrait of the UAE’s first president, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, as “our Ben Gurion,” referring to Israel’s founding father.

“I’m a Muslim Palestinian guiding Israeli Jews,” he said with a laugh, standing on the sidewalk with his tour sign held overhead, preparing to lead the way into the narrow lanes of the spice market. “That is a very Dubai thing.”
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As Israelis Flock To UAE, They See A New Precedent: Peace Deals Without Giving Ground
January 24, 2021​

Israelis are visiting Dubai in the tens of thousands. Where in the past, they could only arrive as undercover spies, competitive athletes or foreign passport holders, now they are loud and proud, running into the arms of their new Middle Eastern friend, the oil-rich United Arab Emirates.

Since December, they have window-shopped among elaborate displays of gilded wedding garments, skied down the indoor slope at Dubai's Mall of the Emirates and boasted of their meetings with Emirati businessmen.

"We Israelis are very noisy, and they understand us ... Here I feel good!" bellowed tour guide Lihi Ziv, wearing a sequined shirt and a blue scarf around her strawberry-red hair, seeing no reason to maintain a low profile as she wandered Dubai's gold market last month.

"We are wanted," said elementary school teacher Ilanit Zighelboim, as she toured the nearby spice market with friends.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates have promoted their U.S.-brokered deal for diplomatic relations as an historic peace deal, after decades in which Israel was isolated from many Arab nations. It's the bear-hug that Israelis have always wanted from their Arab neighbors, leading many Israelis to redefine the very notion of peace and reconsider whether they need make any painful sacrifices to achieve it.

This new view is inspired by an alternative peace doctrine their conservative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has promoted: "peace for peace," a rejection of the traditional paradigm of land for peace. He says the UAE deal sets a precedent: Israel doesn't need to cede captured land to the Palestinians in order to win friends in the Arab world.

"This is what peace for peace looks like!" Netanyahu has tweeted nearly a dozen times — including when the first Israeli commercial jet carrying tourists landed in Dubai last month, and when Abu Dhabi's government investment fund announced it would open an office in Israel.

Emiratis have won over Israelis with gestures including a display of Israeli produce in a Dubai supermarket and an Emirati businessman's offer to buy 50% of a major Israeli soccer team.

The detente reveals a realpolitik in the Persian Gulf, where a new generation of Arabs is less consumed by the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict, more willing to partner with Israel over common concerns like Iran, more interested in gleaning Israeli technological know-how and more keen on strengthening their own standing by aligning with the U.S.' closest Mideast ally.

Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco have also normalized ties with Israel. In the cases of Morocco and Sudan, it was the U.S. and not Israel that offered incentives. Washington recognized Moroccan sovereignty over the disputed Western Sahara and removed Sudan from the U.S. government's terrorism sponsors list. And in the Trump administration's final days, it designated Bahrain and the UAE as "major security partners" of the U.S.

Israel got the U.S. to provide advanced military hardware to maintain Israel's military edge in the Mideast and gained new trade opportunities with a lucrative market.

"Is that not peace?" Israeli investor Simcha Fulda said at a hotel in Dubai, after he held business meetings with Emirati investors. "This is a model of how the peace needs to be with the Palestinians. Mutual respect and acceptance ... looking forward to doing business together and living together."

What makes the friendship easier is that Israelis and Emiratis have never met on the battlefield, unlike the decades of deadly conflict Israel has had with the Palestinians and neighboring Arab nations.

Breaking the Arab boycott of Israel remains controversial in the region. The UAE government expects fealty from its residents and has low tolerance for criticism of its policies. There is a large Palestinian community living and working in the UAE, but those contacted by NPR declined to comment on the Israel deal, fearing repercussions.

Not wishing to be seen as selling out the Palestinians, Emiratis say the lovefest Israelis feel is only the honeymoon; tough love will come later.

They describe their embrace as a strategic attempt to soften Israelis' defensiveness in a hostile region, encourage a spirit of compromise with Palestinians, and eventually persuade Israel to cede land to create a Palestinian state. Israel already agreed to suspend its West Bank annexation plans in exchange for relations with the UAE.

"We still want to see a two-state solution. We still want to see a negotiation between the two parties. But perhaps, just perhaps, we might be able to have more influence and more leverage when we do have a relationship with Israel," said UAE Ambassador to the U.S. Yousef Al Otaiba.

"A plant in the desert will grow thorns because of the lack of water," said Mohammed Baharoon of the Emirati think tank B'Huth. "Change the ecosystem, they will change."

But a prominent Israeli advocate for peace with the Palestinians recently returned from a trip to Dubai with a hardened outlook: it is the Palestinians who must change, he said, not the Israelis.

"I think that the Palestinians need to rethink the way they treat Israel," said Chemi Peres, the son of the late Israeli President Shimon Peres, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for peace efforts with Palestinians.

Peres' son runs the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, which reaches out to Palestinians and other Arabs to foster cooperation with Israelis in sports, medicine and business. Now he is steering the center to prioritize Israeli business ties with the Emiratis, an approach he wants Palestinians to adopt in forging peaceful ties with Israelis.

"Their point of view has been, let's first solve the political issues and then we can start normalizing things and move forward. I believe those days are gone," Peres said. "I believe that the only way for us to really, really achieve peace, comprehensive peace, and save the region from backwardness, is to focus on moving together forward."

Palestinian officials say they cannot.

"Israel occupies our land. Israel continues to create settlements in our villages, destroys our houses...and yet it is we who have to treat Israel better? Who is it that should be doing what to whom? The occupied to the occupier?" said Nabil Shaath, advisor to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

Palestinians and many countries in Europe and the West say real peace requires Israel to agree to the "land for peace" formula — ceding the occupied West Bank to the Palestinians in order to end their conflict. Shaath worries the UAE deal removes the incentive for Israel to do so, even if the Emiratis say they'll keep pushing for it.

"The Israelis are the problem, not us, and the Emiratis are looking for excuses for what they have done," Shaath said.

Some Palestinians do find perks in the new UAE deal. Those who are citizens of Israel — not from the West Bank or Gaza — are finally able to visit a part of the Arab world that had been off limits to them as Israeli passport holders.

"It was a dream, an impossible dream," said Lobna Zobedat, after sandboarding down a desert dune on the outskirts of Dubai, the city she'd always wished to visit.

She hoped Israeli Jewish travelers to Dubai would see their Arab compatriots in a more positive light. Could it lead to less discrimination against her community at home, Zobedat wondered — or would it all just be forgotten on the flight back?

These questions lingered on a Dubai runway last month, as commotion broke out while an Israeli flight readied to depart for Tel Aviv.

Lihi Ziv, the tour guide, protested when a flight attendant tried to fill the empty row in front of her with a couple and their baby, Arab tourists from Israel. Another Arab couple called Ziv racist. Ziv insisted her concern had only to do with the coronavirus pandemic.

"Respect each other!" an Israeli flight attendant commanded. Passengers applauded.

"You all were just in an Arab country, not in Las Vegas," a young Arab dad said in Hebrew. "Look at what is happening here. Disgusting."

"Don't generalize," a Jewish passenger shouted.

The quarreling passengers did not make amends or apologies. Forced to sit together, they spent the 3 1/2-hour flight back to Israel in a cold peace — and went their separate ways.
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Cant blame them. The Palestinians are notorious losers and caused chaos in Lebanon, Kuwait and Jordan. Wherever they go they cause problems. Economic and diplomatic relations with Israel helps the sane Arab world and as such it is now happening slowly.
 
Awaiting for the news to move beyond tourism related stories and more stories about partnerships with high tech sector:

- medical tech
- desalination
- nuclear power plants
 
Fluffernutter said:
- nuclear power plants
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in the area we love solar

by 2030, 30% (40-50% might also be possible) of our electricity supposed to derive from solar, the rest will be from natural gas

uae already started to invest because unlike qatar they don't have infinite oil
https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-uae-fund-to-invest-100m-in-clean-energy-in-israel-1001357897

water tech they bought long time ago

sorry for the constant re-editing
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Hopefully never
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without investments ideas worth nothing
 
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Israel to give 5,000 coronavirus vaccines to Palestinian doctors​

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A Palestinian health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for Covid-19 in the West Bank village of Dura, southwest of Hebron.​

JERUSALEM — Israel has agreed to transfer 5,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinians to immunize frontline medical workers, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's office announced Sunday.

It was the first time that Israel has confirmed the transfer of vaccines to the Palestinians, who lag far behind Israel's aggressive vaccination campaign and have not yet received any vaccines.

The World Health Organization has raised concerns about the disparity between Israel and Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and international human rights groups and U.N. experts have said Israel is responsible for the well being of Palestinians in these areas. Israel says that under interim peace agreements reached in the 1990s it is not responsible for the Palestinians and in any case has not received requests for help.

Gantz's office said early Sunday the transfer had been approved. It had no further details on when that would happen. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials.

Israel is one of the world's leaders in vaccinating its population after striking procurement deals with international drug giants Pfizer and Moderna. The Health Ministry says nearly one-third of Israel's 9.3 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while about 1.7 million people have received both doses.

The campaign includes Israel's Arab citizens and Palestinians living in annexed east Jerusalem. But Palestinians living in the West Bank under the autonomy government of the Palestinian Authority and those living under Hamas rule in Gaza are not included.

The Palestinian Authority has been trying to acquire doses through a WHO program known as COVAX. But the program, which aims to procure vaccines for needed countries, has been slow to get off the ground.
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Israel to give 5,000 coronavirus vaccines to Palestinian doctors​

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A Palestinian health worker takes a swab sample from a woman to test for Covid-19 in the West Bank village of Dura, southwest of Hebron.​

JERUSALEM — Israel has agreed to transfer 5,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine to the Palestinians to immunize frontline medical workers, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's office announced Sunday.

It was the first time that Israel has confirmed the transfer of vaccines to the Palestinians, who lag far behind Israel's aggressive vaccination campaign and have not yet received any vaccines.

The World Health Organization has raised concerns about the disparity between Israel and Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and international human rights groups and U.N. experts have said Israel is responsible for the well being of Palestinians in these areas. Israel says that under interim peace agreements reached in the 1990s it is not responsible for the Palestinians and in any case has not received requests for help.

Gantz's office said early Sunday the transfer had been approved. It had no further details on when that would happen. There was no immediate comment from Palestinian officials.

Israel is one of the world's leaders in vaccinating its population after striking procurement deals with international drug giants Pfizer and Moderna. The Health Ministry says nearly one-third of Israel's 9.3 million people have received the first dose of the vaccine, while about 1.7 million people have received both doses.

The campaign includes Israel's Arab citizens and Palestinians living in annexed east Jerusalem. But Palestinians living in the West Bank under the autonomy government of the Palestinian Authority and those living under Hamas rule in Gaza are not included.

The Palestinian Authority has been trying to acquire doses through a WHO program known as COVAX. But the program, which aims to procure vaccines for needed countries, has been slow to get off the ground.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1256317
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What do you think of Israels long lockdowns? They are #1 at lockdown length. To me there mass vaccination campaign is good but the lockdowns arent working for them so it seens just economicallh destructive to continue it.
 
Arab Parliament condemns Kosovo’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital​

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A Kosovo worker drags the red carpet next to Kosovo’s and Israel’s flags displayed during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry in Pristina on Feb. 1, 2021​

The Arab Parliament condemned Kosovo’s decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem, which recognized the disputed holy city as the capital of Israel, Jordan’s state agency Petra reported.

The organization urged Kosovo on Tuesday to change their mind about the location of the embassy and to abide by international resolutions on the legal state of the holy city.

Israel and Kosovo established diplomatic ties on Monday, with the Muslim-majority territory recognising Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital.

The decision followed Israel’s normalisation of ties with four Arab states under a series of deals brokered by former US president Donald Trump, collectively known as the Abraham Accords, that took place last year.

Unlike Kosovo’s decision to relocate their embassy, those who were part of the Abraham Accords - the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan - have all said their diplomatic missions will remain in Tel Aviv, in line with a global consensus against recognising Jerusalem as Israel’s capital until the Palestinian conflict is resolved.

In exchange for setting up its mission in Jerusalem, Kosovo gets recognition from Israel, as it seeks to further legitimise its 2008 declaration of independence from its former war foe Serbia.

Due to coronavirus restrictions, officials signed joint declarations separately on Monday in Jerusalem and Pristina.

Kosovo’s top diplomat, Meliza Haradinaj-Stublla, thanked Israel for becoming the 117th country to recognise its independence, joining much of the Western world.

China, Russia and five European Union members have not granted recognition to Kosovo.

“Kosovo has waited for a very long time to establish diplomatic relations with Israel,” Haradinaj-Stublla said.
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War in ring, peace on Earth
 
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100% - When my ability to "like" a post returns... this one is a lock. Well done.
 
Palestinians report 21 killed in Israeli air raids on Gaza after Hamas rockets attack
By Linah Alsaafin, Arwa Ibrahim and Ted Regencia | 10 May 2021

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At least 21 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli air raids on the besieged Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian health ministry, after Hamas launched rockets from the coastal territory towards Israel.

The Gaza health ministry told Al Jazeera on Monday that 21 people, including children, had been killed in the attacks.

The attacks were carried out after Hamas fired several rockets at Israel, following the expiration of the group’s ultimatum demanding Israel stand down forces from the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem.

Earlier on Monday tensions at the compound, the third holiest in Islam which is also revered by Jews, escalated with more than 300 Palestinians wounded when Israeli police stormed the mosque, firing rubber bullets, stun grenades and tear gas.

The UN Security Council held an urgent meeting on the unrest in Jerusalem, as world leaders urged the de-escalation of the tensions.

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Iron Dome interceptors filling the sky as more than 100 rockets rain down on Israel
May 11, 2021


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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) released a video of its Iron Dome air defense system filling the sky with interceptors as more than 100 rockets rained down on Tel Aviv and central Israel Tuesday evening, the latest in a string of rocket attacks over the past couple of days.

Tensions between Israel and Hamas soared this week as Palestinian militants began firing rockets at Israel on Monday evening and Israel conducted airstrikes on targets in Gaza in a serious escalation of violence.

The recent fighting appears to be some of the most intense since the 2014 conflict, and it has already left dozens dead, The Associated Press reported. While there have been losses on both sides, the majority of the casualties have been on the Palestinian side, and the dead include both combatants and civilians.

During the fighting on Tuesday, an Israeli airstrike struck a high-rise office and residential building controlled by Hamas. Though occupants were warned to evacuate, an IDF spokesman said that "we expect that this powerful attack on the high-rise building, which shook all of Gaza, will lead to extensive shooting toward Israel," according to Haaretz.

"The Al-Qassam Brigades has launched the largest missile strike on Tel Aviv and its environs, with 130 missiles, in response to the enemy's targeting of civilian high-rises," Hamas said in a statement Tuesday evening, The Times of Israel reported.

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Israel's Iron Dome is a short-range air-defense system designed to intercept rockets, artillery, and mortars. The system has been in use since 2011 and has helped reduce casualties from rocket attacks against Israeli cities.

The air-defense system was developed by the Israeli defense firms Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aerospace Industries with support from the US. It works alongside the David's Sling and Arrow interceptors, which are in place to counter medium- and long-range threats.

It is considered a very effective system, with a reported success rate of more than 90%, but it is not impenetrable. Some rockets have made it through and resulted in deaths.

The video posted Tuesday was not the first video of the Iron Dome defending against recent rocket attacks. On Monday, IDF posted on its official Twitter account video of its defense against a Hamas rocket attack on Ashkelon.

The recent escalation in violence, coming during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, is driven by a number of historic and immediate factors.

Long-standing territorial-control issues remain at the center of much of the animosity, but more recently, the planned evictions of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in east Jerusalem has stoked tensions and sparked demonstrations.

Prior to the latest exchange of fire, Israeli police raided the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites. Police fired rubber-coated bullets, stun grenades, and tear gas in the compound, Reuters reported. While 21 officers were wounded, over 300 Palestinians were injured in the process, according to Palestine Red Crescent Society.

At least 28 Palestinians were killed in the Israeli airstrikes Tuesday, including ten children and a woman, The Associated Press reported. At least three Israelis have been killed by the rockets fired by militant groups in Gaza. Injuries from the fighting are reported to be in the hundreds.

"Any loss of civilian life is deeply lamentable, whether it is an Israeli life or a Palestinian life," Ned Price, a US State Department spokesman, stated Tuesday, adding, "That is why we continue to call for calm, continue to call on all sides to de-escalate and exercise restraint."

Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said Israel would "increase both the intensity of the attacks and the rate of attacks." In a later statement, he said Hamas "will pay a very heavy price for their belligerence."

https://www.businessinsider.com/video-israeli-iron-dome-interceptors-fill-sky-during-rocket-attack-2021-5


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