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Centre for Air Power Studies - URBAN SKIES: ISRAEL’S AIR STRATEGY IN GAZA AND

4 Oct 2024

Figure 2 below summarises the key event markers before the commencement of operations and the outcomes of the IDF strategy. [...] Israel planned to protect its population via a combination of bomb shelters and the Iron The effectiveness of the Iron Dome Aerial Defense System, which successfully Dome also signalled over- intercepted 90 per cent of the rockets.⁸ Following the reliance on the system for 2014 conflict, Israel set out to neutralise the tunnel air defence and the growing threat. [...] The effectiveness of the Iron Dome also signalled over- reliance on the system for air defence and the growing capability of Hamas to saturate the system in future. [...] In just the first week of the conflict, the air force engaged thousands of targets in Gaza. [...] Through the rapid and automatic extraction of intelligence, the Gospel produced targeting recommendations “with the goal of a complete match between the recommendation of the machine and the identification carried out by a person.”⁹ As per the data released by the IDF in November last year, during the first 35 days of the war, Israel attacked 15,000 targets in Gaza, a considerably higher number 03.
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