The IDF has moved two Iron Dome anti-missile installations to northern Israel. The move follows media reports according to which Israel took out two weapons shipments in Syria. The installations were moved overnight Saturday, and have been set up in Haifa and Tzfat.
Apparently bracing for possible retaliation, Israel deployed two Iron Dome missile defense batteries in the north of the country on Sunday morning, hours after it reportedly struck a shipment of Iranian missiles bound for Hezbollah near Damascus.
The Iron Dome can shoot down medium and long-range missiles and rockets. It has been used with a great degree of success to protect cities in southern and central Israel from Hamas rocket attacks.
The move comes as Israel faces growing tension with its northern neighbors, Syria and Lebanon, over alleged airstrikes. IAF planes reportedly flew over Lebanese airspace to hit targets in Syria.
Today, Lebanon's National News Agency stated, "Israeli occupation army raised the degree of mobilization of its troops along the Lebanese southern border, in the wake of the raid by Israeli warplanes at dawn on targets inside Syria, a thing which was met by increased security measures by the Lebanese army and UNIFIL, in anticipation of any military developments."
At the inauguration of a new interchange at the northern end of the Begin Highway in Jerusalem today, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not comment on the situation in Syria. At the ceremony of the interchange, named for his late father, Netanyahu said, "He taught me about the enormous responsibility that we have to ensure the security of the State of Israel and build up its future. This heritage needs to unite us all every day and so it does."
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