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Israel launched the Iron Dome batteries on Friday night in response to rockets fired by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), an Iranian-backed terrorist group in Gaza.
RAW: This is the moment a barrage of rockets was fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians.
This is what terrorism looks like: pic.twitter.com/XLbch5NfFR
— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) August 5, 2022
Iron Dome in action, saving lives as it intercepts PIJ rockets fired into Israel from Gaza! pic.twitter.com/kkE74lJWSc
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) August 5, 2022
Several Iron Dome interceptors were seen engaging incoming rockets over southern Israel. pic.twitter.com/kMoXu7fwEU
— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) August 5, 2022
🚨 Israel’s Iron Dome stops a barrage of rockets from #Gauze at South #Israel pic.twitter.com/IM0ILvtI7e
— i24NEWS English (@i24NEWS_EN) August 5, 2022
Another Iron Dome intercept video pic.twitter.com/d4CcRvLvwG
— Yosef Yisrael (@yosefyisrael25) August 5, 2022
PIJ took responsibility for launch What he claimed were 100 rockets from the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by another Palestinian terrorist group, Hamas.
The rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome system, which protects Israeli population centers from most rockets fired by Palestinian terrorists in recent conflicts.
The Iron Dome missile system receives funding from US President Joe Biden, who visited an Iron Dome battery during his visit to Israel last month.
US President Joe Biden (L) walks with Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid (2nd R) in front of US Defense Attache to Israel Brigadier General Shawn A. Harris (R), in front of an Iron Rod laser defense system (L) and Iron Dome battery (R) during a tour of the Jewish state’s defense systems at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on July 13, 2022. – Biden today launched his first tour of the Middle East since entering the White House last year. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
The PIJ rocket launches were in response to an Israeli military operation, dubbed Operation Breaking Dawn, which sought to prevent the PIJ from launching what the Israeli government said were imminent attacks.
Israel launched airstrikes on Friday afternoon that killed PIJ leader Taysir al-Jabari — days after the US killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan.
Tabari “was in charge of the terrorist group’s rocket arsenal and was the group’s main coordinator with Hamas.” Jerusalem Post mentionted.
It is unclear whether, or to what extent, the conflict will escalate. Israel is preparing for the possibility of further rocket attacks.
Israel faces elections this fall, a factor that could play into Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s decision to launch the operation, as his party faces a strong challenge from the opposition Likud Party, led by former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The conflict is the second war in Gaza in as many years, after four years of calm under President Donald Trump.
Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News and its host Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday nights from 7 p.m. until 10 p.m. ET (4 p.m. to 7 p.m. PT). He is the author of the recent e-book, Neither Free nor Fair: The 2020 US Presidential Election. His recent book, RED NOVEMBER, tells the story of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary from a conservative perspective. He is the winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.
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