There were several rocket attacks on the city last year, though no injuries were caused.
U.S. and Israeli officials credit the Iron Dome with preventing numerous rocket attacks from neighboring Gaza.
In the two days leading up to their deployment on Friday, there were no rocket attacks.
American garrisons in places such as Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, already labour under rocket attacks.
Amateur video footage and eye witness testimony suggested rocket attacks had hit weapons dumps, triggering dramatic orange-flamed blasts.
The explosion was investigated and foul play, including rocket attacks and booby traps, were ruled out, the military said.
In the most recent developments, Syria has accused Israel of launching rocket attacks on Damascus, after a night of huge explosions.
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Obama visited Sderot, which is frequently targeted by rocket attacks from the nearby Gaza Strip.
Israel has expressed regret over the civilian deaths but says the air strikes will continue until Palestinians halt rocket attacks on Israel.
He was a suspect in a series of rocket attacks in Afghanistan.
Hours before Netanyahu's warning, Israel's new Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon also said that he will not allow rocket attacks to become routine again.
But the president has made concessions to Israel as well, by pressing the Palestinians to help stop rocket attacks and by agreeing to a timeline on diplomatic negotiations with Iran.
Israel wants to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel and to stop Hamas smuggling weapons into Gaza via Egypt, while Hamas says any ceasefire deal must include an end to Israel's blockade of Gaza.
Mekel says the government's problems with the network grew during the recent Israeli military attacks inside Hamas-controlled Gaza following Palestinian rocket attacks on the southern Israeli town of Sderot and the port city of Ashkelon.
Abbas, however, was certainly nowhere nearly as directly affronted as the Hamas leaders in Gaza, whom the president unceremoniously slammed for their rocket attacks and for their inattentiveness to the needs of the Palestinian people entrusted into their care.
Colonel BENJAMIN: The problem is here that the other side, unfortunately, are deliberately using civilian areas as platforms for launching these rocket attacks, which is really in breach of what I would call the first law of warfare, which is to keep the civilians out of the picture.
He also has rocket legs that allow him to have charge attacks.
Indirect fire is a reference to rocket and mortar fire, and the U.S. military suspects hard-line Shiite militants stage such attacks.
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