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It is not correct that the system was ""designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells fired from distances of 4 to 70 kilometers away and whose trajectory would take them to a populated area"". It was ""designed to intercept and destroy short-range rockets and artillery shells"". The ""4 to 70 kilometers away"" is the intercept distance, not the distance the rockets and shells travelled. They could have come hundreds of kilometres. And the trajectory could take them to any area, not just populated areas. The system does not distinguish!  "