Two Gaza rockets shot down over Tel Aviv: Army

A missile is launched by an "Iron Dome" battery, a short-range missile defence system designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, on July 11, 2014, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Two Gaza rockets
A missile is launched by an "Iron Dome" battery, a short-range missile defence system designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, on July 11, 2014, in the southern Israeli city of Ashdod. Two Gaza rockets were shot down over the greater Tel Aviv area by the Iron Dome anti-missile system on Sunday, the army said, after at least three explosions shook the area. -- PHOTO: AFP

TEL AVIV (AFP) - Two Gaza rockets were shot down over the greater Tel Aviv area by the Iron Dome anti-missile system on Sunday, the army said, after at least three explosions shook the area.

"Iron Dome intercepted two rockets over the Tel Aviv metropolitan area," the army said, several hours after another two rockets were intercepted over Lod, very close to Israel's main international airport.

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