WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday joined the United States Senate in passing emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system.
Israel will get $225 million to bolster the weapons system.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) issued the following statement:
“The House will always support Israel’s right to defend itself, and today we’ve kept that commitment by backing emergency funding for Iron Dome. This will help protect Israeli citizens from rocket attacks by Hamas, which still has thousands of rockets in its arsenal.”
The House passed the measure 395-8.
According to discovery.com, “Iron Dome is not an actual dome, but a small, mobile arsenal that consists of a radar unit and typically three launchers capable of deploying missile interceptors and missiles. It was up in running for the first time on March 27, 2011 and currently there are five batteries of Iron Dome missile interceptors deployed. It works when radar picks up the signal of an incoming rocket — most of which are unguided — within an approximately 40-mile radius.”
