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In this nerve centre for Israel’s equivalent of the Red Cross, three floors underground in Ramla, near Tel Aviv, a paramedic adjusts her helmet then picks up the phone to dispatch her colleagues: four debris impact sites have just been reported.

All eyes are fixed on screens displaying the number of calls to 101, the number for the national emergency response organisation.

A sudden influx of calls could signal that there are “deaths and injuries”, whispers MDA official Ilan Klein, surrounded by dozens of tense-looking colleagues.

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