Hamas military chief Ahmed Jabari killed by Israel

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IDF moves toward Gaza border

At least a dozen trucks carrying tanks and armored vehicles were seen late Thursday moving toward the border area, while buses ferried soldiers.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced that he had authorized the army to draft reserve forces for possible activity in Gaza. The army said as many as 30,000 troops could be drafted. (AP)
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IDF: Tonight will not be calm in Gaza

The IDF warned that its activities would continued into the night on Friday, warning Hamas

"Terrorists in Gaza should hide. Tonight won't be calm in Gaza," IDF spokesman Yoav Mordechai said. "We're hitting hundreds of rocket launchers in waves of air strikes, including right now."
 

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Precision attack on Ahmed Jabari!

 
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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gantz in Southern Israel, November 15, 2012. In response to the incessant rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip – more than 700 have struck Israel since the beginning of the year, and more than 120 since Saturday – the IDF has launched a widespread campaign against terror targets in Gaza. The operation, called Pillar of Defense, has two main goals: to protect Israeli civilians and to cripple the terrorist infrastructure in Gaza. Pictured: IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz visiting southern Israel.

An Israeli soldier on guard during the funeral of Aaron Smaja in the graveyard of Kiryat Malachi . (Atef Safadi/EPA)

Israel's Iron Dome defense system fires to intercept incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod on Nov. 15. (Tsafrir Abayov/AP)

An Iron Dome launcher fires an interceptor rocket in the southern city of Ashdod . A ceasefire that Israel declared for a visit by Egypt's prime minister to the Gaza Strip on Friday collapsed after Palestinians continued cross-border rocket attacks and Israel launched air strikes in the enclave. *******/Amir Cohen

Israeli soldiers prepare armoured personnel carriers (APC) at an area near the border with the Gaza Strip . Israel has started drafting 16,000 reserve troops, the military said on Friday, in a sign that violence could escalate further with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. *******/Ronen Zvulun

Israeli soldiers prepare armoured personnel carriers (APC) at an area near the border with the Gaza Strip . Israel has started drafting 16,000 reserve troops, the military said on Friday, in a sign that violence could escalate further with Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip. *******/Ronen Zvulun
 

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These were intercepted with operational Iron domes, they are few system guarding main cities only..
 

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U.S. fears Israel-Hamas conflict escalates to ground invasion

U.S. fears Israel-Hamas conflict escalates to ground invasion


The major concern of the United States in the current Israeli-Hamas conflict is a potential Israeli ground incursion into Gaza, U.S. officials said Friday.That would be a disastrous escalation that could trigger a larger conflict, a senior U.S. official told CNN.



"Escalation is what we are concerned about. We don't want it to escalate to the point where Israel feels it has to take additional action, specifically ground force action," the official said.

Israel has some ground forces on the border and ready to act if they are called to do so, said Israel's ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, in a conference call with reporters Friday.

Israel's Cabinet on Friday authorized the call-ups of up to 75,000 reservists, prime minister's spokesman Mark Regev said. Israel's military said earlier in the day that 30,000 troops are being mobilized for a possible move into Gaza.

So far, Israeli tank units and troops have stayed outside Gaza. But the senior U.S. official indicated while the United States unequivocally supports Israel's right to self-defense, the U.S. message right now is for Israel not to enter Gaza on the ground.

"Ground forces would clearly be a major escalation," he said.

The official said the worry is Israeli ground troops could lead to drawing Egypt into the conflict.

"What action would Egypt take, would they move into Sinai?" he said.

He said the assessment is that a number of other Arab nations in the region would then, at least rhetorically, join with Egypt against Israel. The official emphasized this is a U.S. worry and the strong hope is Hamas will stop its rocket attacks on Israel, thereby ending Israeli strikes.

"The question also is how much Hamas wants to risk," the official said.

A second official said the United States also is watching closely to see if Iran, which backs Hamas, attempts to infiltrate new fighters or weapons supplies into Gaza. Neither official would speak on the record because they were discussing sensitive national security matters.

Daniel Ben Simon, an Israeli Knesset member not aligned with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition, said Friday that he sensed "almost an absence" from Washington, adding, "It's time for the Americans to step in."

"We need the boss, and the boss is still the White House," Ben Simon said, calling U.S. officials "the only ones that can control the situation and ... talk freely" to all sides. "It seems the White House is too silent."

The State Department says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has made a number of phone calls trying to muster international pressure to stop what it terms a "very, very dangerous situation" in Gaza.

Clinton, traveling in Asia, called Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr for the second time in as many days, as well as Jordanian King Abdullah and Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday.

"In all cases her message has been the same: that we are urging a de-escalation of this conflict, we are urging those countries with influence on Hamas and other groups in Gaza to use that influence to get a de-escalation."

There will be other calls, Nuland said, to other countries to maximize pressure on Hamas. "I think we are all in the same place. The Egyptians are, the Turkish government is," she said.

Nuland added that the United States is encouraged that Egypt is involved in what she termed "urgent diplomacy."

The Egyptian prime minister was in Gaza on Friday, and Nuland said the call was an opportunity to get an update on that visit and to get a sense from the Egyptians in the wake of the visit what further steps they can take to help de-escalate the situation.

The U.S. Navy is continuing to keep to the standard deployment of three warships in the eastern Mediterranean that can shoot down ballistic missiles fired by Iran that would threaten Israel. Those ships are not equipped to deal with the short-range rockets being used by Hamas.

The Navy also has quietly made the decision to keep three amphibious warships with several hundred Marines on board in the vicinity of the Mediterranean in the unlikely event they might be needed to assist Americans leaving Israel.

Three U.S. military officials stressed strongly that the scenario is very unlikely.

"No one has even drawn an evacuation plan on the back of a cocktail napkin yet," one official said. But the three ships have been told to stay in place until there is more certainty about what is happening.

The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv took precautionary measures Friday, reducing its staff and suspending routine consular services, according to an embassy security message. Additionally, embassy staff were instructed to keep their children home from school for the day and were prohibited from traveling to the south of Israel.


U.S. fears Israel-Hamas conflict escalates to ground invasion – CNN Security Clearance - CNN.com Blogs
 

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Israel denies Hamas shot down plane
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The Israeli military on Friday denied that Hamas' military wing shot down an Israeli aircraft over the Gaza Strip.The al-Qassam Brigades said it shot down a warplane over Gaza and that Israel heavily shelled the area to destroy the wreckage."It's not true," an Israeli military spokesman told Ma'an.


A member of Hamas security points to an unexploded missile(not seen) after an Israeli airstrike on the building of the ministry of interior in Gaza Nov. 16, 2012. (Reuters/Mohammed Salem)

Also Friday, Hamas' armed wing said it fired two homemade projectiles at Jerusalem and a long-range missile at the Israeli cabinet building in the city. Israeli police said a rocket fired from Gaza landed in the Jerusalem area, outside the city, on Friday.

A Ma'an reporter in Bethlehem, which is south of Jerusalem, observed a trail from a rocket above the city shortly before a blast was heard, and air raid sirens rang out across the city. There were no immediate reports of injury or damage.

It was the first Palestinian rocket since 1970 to reach the vicinity of Jerusalem.

The al-Qassam Brigades has fired hundreds of rockets at Israeli military bases and across the border since Israel assassinated the group's military commander Ahmad al-Jaabari on Wednesday.


Israel denies Hamas shot down plane | Maan News Agency
 

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Defense Ministry to deploy 5th Iron Dome battery

Ministry expedites deployment of fifth battery to the South by two months in face of ongoing rocket fire.

The Defense Ministry will deploy a fifth Iron Dome battery in Israel on Saturday evening, it announced Friday.

The battery, originally scheduled to be deployed in two months time, is being expedited in light of the ongoing security escalations and rocket barrages striking Israel.

The Defense Ministry said technicians were "working around the clock" in order to move the fifth battery from the test field to the battlefield. The new battery was recently tested for its improved capabilities.

The upgraded system is designed to shoot down rockets at longer ranges than what the older Iron Dome batteries are capable of.

Speaking earlier this month, Defense Minister Ehud Barak described the development as "significant progress toward the completion of a multi-layered defense system," adding that further resources will need to be invested.

The four Iron dome batteries currently deployed in Israel have successfully intercepted well over a hundred rockets from Gaza since Operation Pillar of Defense began on Friday.



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Home Front Command: Prepare for 7 weeks of fighting

Authority heads within 75-kilometer range from Gaza Strip instructed to prepare; some 2,000 Command reservists recruited so far

Home Front Command asks local authorities to prepare for seven-week fighting period: In discussions held between Home Front Command Chief Major-General Eyal Eisenberg, regional commanders and heads of local authorities in the center and in the south, authorities have been instructed to prepare for a seven-week period of combat as part of Operation Pillar of Defense and to prepare emergency supplies, accordingly.


Some supplies were prepared in advance. The Home Front Command estimates that terror organizations in the Gaza Strip are still capable of launching long-range rockets, even further than a 75-kilometer range.

The Home Front Command sharpened instructions for the Tel Aviv metropolitan area and southern residents and, accordingly, communities located in a range of between 40-75 kilometers from the Gaza Strip must enter nearby, protected spaces the moment blasts or sirens are heard.

If there is no protected space in the vicinity, residents should enter the nearest structure or stairwell. In light of the long-range rockets fired over the past few days, these instructions apply to all communities within a 75-kilometer range and not only in the Tel Aviv metropolitan area.

Until now, 2,000 ground reservists have been enlisted to the Home Front Command. Beyond emergency and rescue team activities at locations where missiles have landed, the Command's soldiers have been filling various duties such as providing reinforcements at hospitals, opening baby-sitting services and renovating shelters.

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I think Hamas is baiting the Israeli Iron Dome so that they can study how it works and how it can be defeated.
 

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Y Pakistan not sending JF-17 lufender to protect Palestinian in the name of Islam ,also y don't pakis use Babur ,gauri,humayu,tipu, and zaid hamid to Israel
 

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It will be great if pakistan loses some of his chincoms j series fighters against israel
 

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Its all on internet, they dont need to waste there rockets..
I don't think the IDF will post on the internet their strategy in how to use the Iron Dome. Specs and strategy are different. Besides, don't I wouldn't be fooled by internet revelation of specs. I don't think the IDF has revealed all the specs of Iron Dome.
 

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