Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Boeing aim to design a system to shoot down Kassam rockets, which have increasingly been fired toward Israeli population centers since the retreat from Gaza.
The Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRMBD) system has been deemed necessary by Israel's defense establishment as rockets are increasingly fired from Gaza toward critical Israeli installations such at Ashkelon’s Rotenberg Power Plant.
The range of the rockets continues to improve and Kassam rocket factories have also been discovered in northern Samaria. The Defense Ministry has concluded that it is only a matter of time until rockets are fired at targets in central Israel as well.
A terrorist from the Popular Resistance Organization told the Yediot Acharonot newspaper Monday that efforts are underway to launch Kassam rockets from Judea and Samaria. He said that a Kassam rocket launcher confiscated in Bethlehem recently was intended for an attack against Jerusalem's southern Gilo neighborhood.
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