{"id":72281,"date":"2021-05-25T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=72281"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:54:55","slug":"armstrong-gazas-enhanced-rocket-technology-challenges-israels-defences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2021\/05\/armstrong-gazas-enhanced-rocket-technology-challenges-israels-defences\/","title":{"rendered":"ARMSTRONG: Gaza\u2019s enhanced rocket technology challenges Israel\u2019s defences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock University\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece published in <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/gazas-enhanced-rocket-technology-challenges-israels-defences-160853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Conversation<\/em><\/a> on May 17 about rockets that were launched at Israel by militants in Gaza as well as the Israeli military\u2019s response prior to the beginning of a ceasefire on Thursday, May 20.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGaza militants have launched their\u00a0\u201cSword of Jerusalem\u201d rocket war\u00a0with Israel by firing a symbolic salvo at Jerusalem and bigger ones elsewhere. Israel\u2019s\u00a0\u201cGuardian of the Walls\u201d operation responded with Iron Dome interceptors at home and airstrikes in Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As someone who\u2019s researched Israeli missile defence systems for several years, the situation initially seemed to me like a repeat of\u00a0their 2014 conflict, which showcased Israel\u2019s advanced defences. But militants in Gaza have enhanced their rocket technology and tactics.\u00a0That\u2019s reminiscent of 2008, when Israel was more vulnerable to rockets and waged a three-week military offensive against Gaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to the Israel Defense Forces,\u00a0roughly 3,100 rockets have been fired from Gaza. That\u2019s about as many as during the seven-week battle in 2014. (All rocket numbers in this article were reported by the Israel Defense Forces or Israel Security Agency. There is no way to independently verify most of them.)\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Israeli news reports say they\u2019ve caused\u00a010 civilian deaths and more than 564 injuries, while\u00a0Israeli countermeasures have killed almost 200 Palestinians\u00a0and\u00a0resulted in scenes of carnage and devastation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/gazas-enhanced-rocket-technology-challenges-israels-defences-160853\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Armstrong, Associate Professor of Operations Research in Brock University\u2019s Goodman School of Business, wrote a piece published in The Conversation on May 17 about rockets that were launched at Israel by militants in Gaza as well as the Israeli military\u2019s response prior to the beginning of a ceasefire on Thursday, May 20.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,7,6],"tags":[594,4395,5512],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72281"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72288,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72281\/revisions\/72288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}