Israel's Iron Dome air defence system intercepts rockets launched from Gaza on October 11, 2023.Photo by BASHAR TALEB/AFP via Getty Images

Here's a closer look at Israel's multilayered air-defence system

Israel has deployed a multilayered air-defence system. It faces big test with Iranian drone strike

· National Post

An incoming attack by Iranian drones and ballistic missiles poses the latest challenge to Israel’s air defense system, which already has been working overtime to cope with incoming rocket, drone and missile attacks throughout the six-month war against Hamas.

EXCLUSIVE: The evidence linking UNRWA to Hamas that Ottawa saw before resuming its fundingBiographies of UN employees who took part in the Oct. 7 massacre in Israel.Bryan Passifiume, 12 Apr 2024Conrad Black: Only after Hamas is destroyed can there be a Palestinian stateGiven the Gazan war and the tensions that are always present in the Middle East but are particularly high now, a little original thinking would be particularly useful. As I have had occasion to write in this space before, there can be no resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian issue until the terrorist apparatus of Hamas is completely destroyed. This is not just another episode, the latest skirmish, in the endless series of such incidents until on some far-off day by sheer attrition the parties turn their swords into plowshares. Hamas’s attack on Israel on Oct. 7 was an act of war in violation of an agreed ceasefire and was conducted with the maximum possible barbarity, with the support of the Iranians, to sabotage an impending agreement between Israel and Saudi Arabia, and specifically targeted against the most vulnerable people — children, women and the elderly, and those who had shown their commitment to reconciliation with the Arabs by choosing to live so close to the border of Gaza. It combined the sneak attack…Conrad Black, 13 Apr 2024