Moshe Ya'alon urges patience, restraint during visit to Ashdod navy base bus says fire from Gaza could resume; lauds force's role throughout Operation Protective Edge.
Senior army officer says system passed lab tests, currently undergoing field testing; could be deployed around Gaza within 1 year; system will cost at least NIS 1.5 billion.
Announcement follows unconfirmed reports that the Egyptians would agree to the deployment of some 1,000 PA policemen along the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.
Air raid sirens wailed in Ashkelon and in Gaza-border communities almost without end since Friday morning at 8 am, when the 72-hour ceasefire officially expired with more than 35 rockets and mortars fired on Israel within four hours.
One of those injured in moderate condition, while the other sustained light injuries; community security fence and several houses damaged by Gaza rocket fire.
Terror group calls for Palestinian negotiators to leave Cairo talks, not agree to cease-fire extension if terms not met; Egypt pressing Hamas, Islamic Jihad to extend cease-fire that ends Friday morning.
Three main European Union countries, Germany, France and Britain, have proposed to reactivate an EU mission on the Egypt-Gaza border to help stabilize the Gaza Strip after the month-long conflict.