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"...units are meant to accompany and operate a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and Patriot battalions ordered to be spread across the region. ...Twenty-one American troops have suffered injuries from these attacks, many of them traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). ..."
Reference: thehill.com ."...Emergency Resupply for Iron Dome Act of 2023.
The bill mandates redirecting U.S. foreign assistance from Hamas-controlled Gaza to resupply Israel's missile defense.
"My legislation requires the Biden administration to halt U.S. foreign assistance from going to Hamas terrorist-dominated areas and instead to redirect these resources to help Israel resupply its lifesaving Iron Dome interceptors," Hagerty said in a press release on Thursday. ...Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., a co-sponsor of the bill, said, "Now more than ever, the U.S. must stand in support of our greatest ally in the Middle East, Israel.
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"...action was a demonstration of the integrated air and missile defense architecture that we have built in the Middle East and that we are prepared to utilize whenever necessary to protect our partners and our interests...cannot say for certain what these missiles and drones were targeting, but they were launched from Yemen heading north along the Red Sea..."
Reference: nypost.com .Article Title: Biden admin set to allow Iran UN sanctions on ballistic missile program to expire: 'Huge victory for Tehran'
Snippet of Article: "...The Hamas war against Israel is slated to be given a potent shot in the arm if the U.S. and its European allies allow U.N. sanctions to be lifted on Iran’s capability to purchase and supply missiles to enemies of the U.S. and Israel, according to experts on Tehran.
This coming Wednesday is the so-called "Transition Day" when the expiration of the U.N.’s embargo against Iran’s ability to procure and sell missiles and drones goes into effect. ..."
Article Excerpt: "Meshaal's call for a Friday 13th uprising was reiterated by Hamas itself...'We declare next Friday, ''The Friday of the Al-Aqsa Flood,'' as a day of general mobilization in our Arab and Islamic world and among the free people of the world,' Meshaal's statement said, which was sent to Reuters news agency. ..."
Reference Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
"Netanyahu tells Israel ‘We are at war’ after Hamas launches an unprecedented attack, killing at least 22 people ...Hamas fighters parading what appeared to be stolen Israeli military vehicles through the streets and at least one dead Israeli soldier within Gaza being dragged and trampled by an angry crowd of Palestinians ...“We are at war,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a televised address, declaring a mass mobilization of the country’s army reserves. “Not an ‘operation,’ not a ‘round,’ but at war.” “The enemy will pay an unprecedented price,” he added, promising that Israel would “return fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known.” ..."
Reference: nypost.com ."...On Saturday morning, as sirens blared alerting residents to the landing of Hamas' rockets on Israeli soil, what stopped most rockets from wreaking havoc was Israel's Iron Dome. ..."
Reference: www.timesnownews.com ."...The Israeli military said that at least 2,200 rockets had been fired from Gaza. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered a call-up of reservists and said, “We are at war.” At least 41 people have been killed...."
Reference: www.nytimes.com ."...A final successful test has been held of Burevestnik missile - a global-range nuclear-powered cruise missile. ...The missile, code-named Skyfall by Nato, is said to be powered by a nuclear reactor, which is supposed to activate after solid fuel rocket boosters have launched it into the air. But the New York Times quoted an arms control campaign group, the Nuclear Threat Initiative, as saying that the previous known 13 tests of the system between 2017 and 2019 were all unsuccessful."
Reference: www.bbc.com .