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Israel Air Force Shortens Response Time When Sighting Gaza Rocket Cells


(Times of Israel) Mitch Ginsburg - Rocket-launching terror squads in Gaza used to have several minutes to set up their weapons, shoot them and disappear before Israel could muster any counter action. Today, an Israeli military official says, the cells have mere moments before they are spotted and targeted. "If in the past it would take a considerable amount of time from sighting (a terror squad) until being able to fire on them, meaning that you would lose (sight of) the squad, today that hardly ever happens," said an Israel Air Force official. In the most recent round of confrontation, six squads were successfully targeted while trying to fire on Israel.
2012-06-29 00:00:00
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