'We must recapture rocket-launch zones'

Paying for the same property twice... Jerusalem Post

The IDF should take control of areas inside the Gaza Strip from which mortar shells are fired at the South, Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i said Sunday evening.

Vilna'i, speaking at a conference at Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies on lessons for the home front from Operation Cast Lead, said the mortar fire remained a principal threat.

"We must occupy places from which mortar shells are being fired," he said. "They are within a limited range of five to six kilometers [inside Gaza], and we simply need to be there."

Vilna'i also said that the Iron Dome anti-missile system would become operational in the winter of 2010, and would be able to shoot down missiles headed for population centers.