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. NBC News’ Tom Llamas reports on how it works.
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#Israel #IronDome #HamasAttack
W israel
good system to defend kids killers
Gotta defend from coward terrorist that use civilians as human shields.
Nobody cares
They used water pipes for the people. Yet they blame others.
@Sina Bagheri Sarvestani … at no point did the reporter say that. You’re on crack if you think that.
@Roxxelana he just copy paste his own comment.
he dumb af.
you can see on the other repply.
Just got US upgrades.
Why no satellite photos of the rocket hitting the hospital?
Know they are there
there is Al Jazeera video
Free Palestine 🇵🇸 from HAMAS💯
Without Iron Dome the hamas terrorists would have all of Israel on fire,and any missile defense system can still be overwhelmed by thousands of rockets and missiles coming at the same time.I’m very glad they have it or they may have had to resort to using weapons I don’t even want to think about,to defend themselves.Canada and I stand with Israel.🇨🇦🤝🇮🇱❤️🙏
Just need all the Muslim countries to simultaneously fire rockets into Israel and I don’t think the “Iron Dome” will be able to sustain. It’s really, really scary.
If israel did not have these defences they would probaly had erased whole gaza by now.
😂😂😂😂😂
Hamas is launching a rocket every 2 seconds (on average)
I wonder how much they store them up
@FoodieyunAs much as international aid which were supposed to be use for Gazian, they were use in manufacturing rocket instead.
US funded it ,but what a blessing for them to have.
Exactly. And it needs to stop.
US and british. Probably because they feel responsible for the situation the put them in after the 1948 2 state solution. Still Israel put 24 billon dollar from own pockets for the millitary defences and get 3.8 from US
I don’t think a rocket with this destruction power has capability to take down that hospital.
It was a Mark 84 bomb used.
The images of the hospital parking lot blast tell you it’s a very weak blast. Most of the cars burned but some still had its windshield intact. which tells you the failed Hamas rocket doesn’t have enough energy shockwave to destroy a windshield. Even light materials like a nearby bedsheet and plants didn’t even take damage.
@moerow8215 Do you have any proof? I saw the live footage, and it appeared that the rocket went up and fell back. Also, the two hospital buildings in the shot were overlapping the blast and didn’t appear to be hit. You can see the silhouette of the solar panels. The drone footage also showed the hospital intact the next day while showing damage to the parking lot. The Israeli strikes have definitely been more fierce and have inflicted much more structural damage than what was seen by the hospital. I am not biased about this. I am rooting for innocent civilians and hope they can get humanitarian assistance. I am devastated for them, and their suffering is the real tragedy.
@Thekomokoro And this happened when missiles were being fired into Israel. You can clearly see the failed trajectory of one rocket. It’s still unfortunate because we’re talking about the livelihood of innocent people.
It was not in any way shape or form developed by Israel this technology is given to Israel by the United States there’s even headline stating new iron dome systems heading to Israel…
Your American tax dollars at work.
Civilized countries around the world should deport these potential terrorist militants back to their home countries. The fact is that Europe has already been Islamized and the situation is very bad. I hope that left-wing governments and the politically correct will wake up to the seriousness of the situation. Finally, may God bless his people!
In dealing with Islamic terrorists, we should fight fire with fire and blood with blood. Political correctness and naive kind-heartedness will only lead to more suffering for peace-loving and kind-hearted people.The financial backers behind the Hamas terrorists are supported by the CCP and the Putin government.🇮🇱🙏🏿🇹🇼🙏🏻🙏🙏🇺🇸🙏🏻🇹🇼🙏🏿🇮🇱❤🇮🇱❤🇮🇱🎉🇮🇱🎉🇮🇱
You’re right. Horrible regime, like the terrible-terrible CCP in China and the ripper of Russia (Putin), they’re all backing terrorism. All those countries should get rid of those regimes. It’s time.
Israel is a terror state. This situation is a set up to steal more land
If it’s a great system for defense why exploit it on media were dey can gain info from dis crazy
I’d like to add a worth-understanding point:
If it weren’t for the Iron Dome – we would certainly have lots of casualties. But the thing is: it’s been stopping us from going into Gaza and devastate it. that war we’re having now is a whole different thing than what we’re used to. Yes, sadly, we are definitely used to terrorist attacks (stabbing, suicide-attacks on buses, rifles around cities etc.), but what happened on October 7th, 1500 murdered and 200 kidnapped citizens? that’s a whole different level. And that’s why, that’s exactly why, we can’t stop ourselves from entering Gaza, because that will happen again. It’s not about rockets anymore.
I’m glad we have the Iron Dome nonetheless. Our brilliant minds…
But the thing is: it’s been stopping us from going into Gaza and devastate it and smashing hospitals and unarmed children. @herrhyde Good on you, oh brilliant minds.
No calamity can befall anyone if there is love, unity and friendship.
this isnt fantasy
No more money for any other country, even Israel.
We are broke!!!!
Israel has plenty of our money and are rich, plus the money supports murder
I used to believe that Israelite are God’s chosen people, not anymore
I’m scared
Where did you gets your facts from? Hamas spokesman? 🤣🤣🤣
It’s brilliant! we need this system at home combined with short range lasers for the clean up. It’s time we all start feeling safer in the world. But honestly if you think this is impressive you’d be amazed what we the u.s.a can do. I mean hamas are still using fertilizer…. And guess which 2 countries lead in current fertilizer production and exports as of 2020 onward? China. Russia. Belarus. We need to watch fertilizer exports closer.
@Sina Bagheri Sarvestani bro just copy paste his own comment everytime he repply someone💀
Israel has Iron Beam now
Curious to see if a high powered laser would be more effective. No need to restock interceptors
@Sina Bagheri Sarvestanithat is a rocket too made by plastic pipes, that can’t detect by the iron dome, because iron dome only detect metalic rocket. 1 iron dome can’t catch 500 rockets impossible for that but if you had 3000 iron dome in Israel it’s so safe to rockets but the problem is how pricey is that.
The Iron what? I have not heard of it 50000 times n the past week… Tell me again what does it do?
Well, that iron dome didn’t seem to come in handy now did it
@Sina Bagheri Sarvestani well well well well, there’s a frog inside a well.
Nothing can defend them from god after death . They enslaved a whole natation of Palestinians generation after generation and the world still conspires . They occupied them deprived em of the slightest rights to live a decent life. And now accusing a hopeless resistance and call it terrorist . Call it whatever you want a colonizer is a colonizer a settler is a settler . An aperthied state is an aperthied state .
Absolutely terrifying
Destroying Gaza is important to prevent Hamas from launching their cheap rockets
God bless Israel 🇹🇷🇮🇱🙏🙏🙏
i love how your countrymen are very nice and your leadership also a salute to united state that they burn the innocent children and women in gaza hospital and its a very kind thing by United state aid to Israel. what a peaceful country united stated is 😂😂
It definitely works.. for about 10-12 rockets
Third Temple will fall just like the first two and America will fall with it just like the Roman Empire
Now you can see where all the aid to palestinian goes.😮
Is the fight hitting the government location
Israel didn’t build the iron dome. America gave it to them. lol just lies
Gos bless Israel 🇮🇱🇮🇳🇺🇲
THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE BECAUSE THEY’VE NEVER SHOWN THESE GROUPS THE MILITANT MUSLIM GROUPS TO HAVE BOMBS THAT POWERFUL THAT CAN JUST LIGHT UP AN ENTIRE BLOCK AND BLOW DOWN A BUILDING OR PART OF IT LIKE THAT THEY’VE NEVER SHOWN THAT💥
They have never shown ability to use things that powerful
They just never had explosives that powerful that is a very high-end explosive and it has to be a laser-guided bomb or a cruise missile
Advanced weapon that was used
That has to be an advanced weapon
Not a mortar around it was a missile but their missiles don’t have any kind of targeting capability with lasers or satellite
The chances that a missile would fail and then come exactly down on that particular building around the other ones are like a needle-in-a-haystack like one in a thousand one in a million
It’s very unlikely that that missile would just happen to come down on that trajectory to the most populated place in one square mile
It had to be a guided-missile they don’t have that and it had to be the types of munitions that they don’t have
That explosion had the power of a typical advanced explosive from a fighter jet
This is clearly a higher Western power or some other power that launched this to instigate a war
While they’re telling all kinds of stories at the IDF to cover y’all up to avoid looking guilty and perhaps they are not guilty and the US may be covering it up to avoid a bigger war maybe they’re trying to be helpful none-the-less
They know that doesn’t seem like one of their missiles even if it doesn’t come from the Israel side
so if it was another country like Iran why is it they don’t just come out and say that Iranian intelligence fired something
That Iran targeted these people in order to create a false flag?!
Really quite unbelievable that they aren’t pointing the finger at the right person
That they can’t figure something like this out
None of their missiles are like this they make little holes they set fires they killed two or three people
When did they use the missile that kills 500?!
SKYHUNTER INTERCEPTOR WAS NOT DEVELOPED BY ISRAEL
IF THE USA HAS SOME FORM OF SATTELITE IMAGING THING, CANT THEY PINPOINT WHERE HAMAS IS LAUCHING THESE ROCKETS AND DESTROY THAT AREA?
They need this because they are being hit always by missiles from muslim countries
saudi and jordan dont need us help even if they got problem with iran
This is the beginning of the end of the “Long Peace” after WW2 religions of the world are ,and always have been at war people from Israel took over my Mum and Dads Crocodile and Chicken Farm in PNG took 20 years to build ,employed hundreds ,they set fire to it within 6 months took off with the insurance money ,never to be seen again
Hamas Rocket attacks can saturate the defense and many rockets get through.
Palestinians are shooting rockets at Israel civilians 24/7
well the reporter is saying the Israeli air attack on Gaza was a rocket , it was an Israeli air strike , Un observers on the ground believe it was either a drone or a helicopter strike , it was not a rocket . In other words this reporter is saying that Gaza is attacking itself and Israel has nothin to do with it
well the reporter is saying the Israeli air attack on Gaza was a rocket , it was an Israeli air strike , observers on the ground believe it was either a drone or a helicopter strike , it was not a rocket . In other words this reporter is saying that Gaza is attacking itself and Israel has nothin to do with it
what are you going on about. This is about Israel’s Iron Dome system.
Iron Beam too, report on that
well the reporter is saying the Israeli air attack on Gaza was a rocket , it was an Israeli air strike , observers on the ground believe it was either a drone or a helicopter strike , it was not a rocket . In other words this reporter is saying that Gaza is attacking itself and Israel has nothin to do with it
my guess is that this reporter would be banned for life form entering any Arab country for spreading disinformation .
It’s heartbreaking I pray they are save
For israel US has lost its dignity..Russi-China is the best option to lead the world
It’s like New Year’s Eve every night.
You all in the comment wish we didn’t have this tool. “How dare they defend themselves so efficiently “. I guess that’s how creative a country can be when its citizens value life.
God Bless Israel 🇮🇱
Which clearly doesn’t work that well.
What is Apartheid Israel going to do when they run out of missiles for that crappy system?
Yeah we dont have no iron dome. Israel doesnt need anymore money from the U.S.!!!!
Let them trust in allah. The rest put thier trust in iron dome and technology.
Arab says with allah help we will win. I hope they keep thinking that.
I stand with and for Israel.
America has no defense with Joe’s open border and refunding of our border patrol, Democrats are trash, and so is corporate media.
NBC must be cancelled
Hamas begged, provoked, orchestrated, started and paved the way over for all this mess, we ain’t a sheep 🐑🐑 to randomly show support for massacuring 3 months old israeli babies to please a foreign aggressive vision, Tehran its source !
Hamas, on the payroll of the Iranian handlers!
Hamas, when the so called Iranian bros will come to fight with you to free Jerusalem?!
Hamas taking humanitarian aid and turning them into missile silos. How are people in the US backing these people?
I am from Turkey and it is a fact that Hamas made a mistake, Hamas started the war. I am heartbroken that Hamas bombed young people’s parties, massacred civilians, raided houses and killed people. Hamas made a mistake and must pay the price. Israel is right.
Remote sensing at its best
Iorn dome cannot protect the flood
Does anyone want to explain to me why Isreal is attacking a country that doesnt even have a military army? To call this a war insinuates that each side has a potential opportunity to win against the other. This is not a war. This is a genocide, for political gain and resouces. No different than past historical atrocities. And somehow the the side with the least amount of resouces, military power, technology and support—the side that is the least vulnerable and on the verge of being extinct–is the enemy. Does 1+1 still equal 2? Because the math of the majority is not making any sense.
Very dangerous no
And you really still think that Israel has to be lenient with those terrorists?
Meu apoio a Israel.
The Nord Stream gas pipelines were blown up by Russia, they said, now they saying the Palestinians have blown up their own hospital. stop fooling the world.
It is not called Iron Dome, it’s Called “The Hand 🖐️ of God” Amen
Irone dome is from 1 to 100 rocket they catch 85 to 90 rockets, but not all rockets can catch by iron dome like the rocket made by platic pipes that not instantly detected by iron dome because, iron dome program is for made metalic rocket. So Hamas now they know the weakness of the iron dome they expose the irom dome, that 100 rockets iron dome can catch only 80 or 85 its not 90% effective to catching rocket its 85% and iron dome struggling to catch rockets with thousands of rockets.
Who counts up to “more than 6500?”
Not my concern, all funding prolongs conflicts, Israel cannot invade until a new speaker gives them billions in aid.
thanks iron Dome for saving life from islam terrorist
That Major looked exhausted.