Israel will deploy tanks equipped with a miniature missile defense system along the Gaza border in the coming weeks now that Palestinian militants are using a sophisticated missile-piercing tanks, defense officials said Wednesday.
Violence has been escalating along the border with the Gaza Strip in recent weeks, military commander of Israel on Tuesday as activists of the Palestinian coastal strip had first fired a missile grain earlier this month and has entered an Israeli tank.
Hamas leaders in Gaza have not confirmed or denied possessing missiles.
Israeli officials say the Iranian-backed militants from Gaza which were based on crude, locally made bullets and missiles have become more powerful and precise produced abroad.
Israeli defense officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss these issues in public, said laser-guided Kornet had come from Iran.
They provided no evidence and it was unclear how the missiles were delivered. Hamas, which has close ties with Iran, controls a network of smuggling tunnels in Gaza's southern border with Egypt.
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