Israel’s Iron Dome has been nearly 99 per cent effective against missiles from Hamas and Hezbollah and has knocked out most missiles from Iran, the chairman of state-owned Iron Dome maker Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd said, according to Reuters.

Rafael’s Yuval Steinitz told a conference of the Jerusalem Centre for Security and Foreign Affairs that since October 2023, Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon combined have fired some 40,000 rockets at Israel.

“Iron Dome intercepted most of them with success rates that (are) not 100pc but close to 100pc. It’s around 98pc, even 99pc, so it’s not perfect, but almost,” Steinitz said.