going to put these batteries? what cities are we going to defend and you can t defend the whole country. you have to pick these boxes and each box would be about the size of say manhattan. that s what you have to defend. can t defend the whole country and there s a lot of problems with the israelis who say why are they defending those cities and not my city? i want to get to the iron dome and how it works in just a second but, first, when you re talking about how this is a new ball game, they are dealing with a different type of range of rocket coming from gaza, how does that change how israel responds? how are they reacting to this? well, they are reacting, you know, much stronger than many of us thought. the numbers of sortis that they are putting into gaza right now is astounding. much higher level of operations than they did before because they think there s a much greater threat. some of the latest numbers i m seeing is israel in the last 24 hours hitting over 300 targets.
far. these are not missiles, they are rockets, no on-board gas oregon. they fire them in the direction of a city hoping that they are going to hit something and it will get through the iron dome. they fire them in volleys hoping to overwhelm the tracking radar for the iron dome. some of them are going to get through. let s get to the iron dome. want to get your take, the iron dome defense system and what it is. it s essentially exactly what the word describes, as much as it can be. if missiles are fired and can be targeted then by firepower coming from israel, that s the whole point, that s what it s supposed to do. it is effective. oh, it s very effective. how does it really work? it s nothing more than a radar that like our counter battery radar. tracks the trajectory of an incoming rocket, determines where it s going to hit. if it hits within the defended zone, and they have decided we re going to defend this box, if it s going to go into that box, the system engages autom
in tel aviv and jerusalem. seeking safety from hamas rockets launched from gaza now a daily occurrence across israel. no country on earth would remain passive in the face of hundreds of rockets fired on its cities and israel is no exception. israel calculates there are 10,000 rockets in gaza in the hands of various terrorist groups. the amount of rockets we re seeing come out of hamas and the gaza strip is really kind of alarming. they re launching 40 at a time over 100 a day. a huge worry? the hamas rocket called the m 302. with a range of about 100 miles it allows hamas to reach deeper into israel than ever before. israel says hamas is getting outside help. in march, israeli forces stopped a ship containing m 302s that the israelis said came from iran and were headed to gaza.
least one thing that s different, the range of the firepower coming from gaza militants. yeah. what they have acquired. syrian-made m-302, long range rocket built by the syrians provided to hamas by the sorryians and the iranians. this rocket can range anywhere in israel. shoots about 100 miles. that s what we re sitting haifa and hedera. let s lay it out. previously i understand the firepower hamas had coming from gaza would get the range to about tel aviv, just past tel aviv, and what they are seeing now is the range is reaching some 93 miles into israel which israel says puts two-thirds of its population within range. you know, the increased range creates a real problem for the israelis because they have the iron dome, but the only dome can only do point defenses so they have to decide where are we gth
are going over us on regular occasions and there is no let-up in the israeli air strikes. we ve seen numerous bombings along the gaza strip behind me and its northernmost edge. we ve seen rockets go up and intersections by iron dome. mis further than the idf has ever seen before, as far as 160 kilometer, the m-302 which israeli defense forces say is manufactured in syria and shipped from iran. and that is a big problem for this iron dome missile defense dome, brianna, which has been working, but these are mobile batteries which have to be deployed upon where they think the threat is coming from. the radius of militant rockets goes further across israel it is far more difficult to protect the entire country. that said, there have been no