An Iron Dome commander is holding the heavens
responsible for stopping a Hamas rocket from killing hundreds of Israeli
civilians.
The Daily Mail reported what the commander said of his experience:
A missile was fired from Gaza. Iron Dome precisely
calculated [its trajectory]. We know where these missiles are going to
land down to a radius of 200 meters. This particular missile was going
to hit either the Azrieli Towers, the Kirya (Israel’s equivalent of the
Pentagon) or [a central Tel Aviv railway station]. Hundreds could have
died.
We fired the first [interceptor]. It missed. Second [interceptor]. It
missed. This is very rare. I was in shock. At this point we had just
four seconds until the missile lands. We had already notified emergency
services to converge on the target location and had warned of a
mass-casualty incident.
Suddenly, Iron Dome (which calculates wind speeds, among other
things) shows a major wind coming from the east, a strong wind that …
sends the missile into the sea. We were all stunned. I stood up and
shouted, ‘There is a God!”
Here’s the thing: If Hamas would have succeeded, it would have
been the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history. And whether you
believe in God or not, this sure felt like a “miracle” to the hundreds
of people who would have been killed, if it weren’t for a perfectly
timed gust of wind…
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