Can Israel's Iron Dome be overrun? System's capabilities in focus amid rising risk of war with Hezbollah

• Hezbollah on Thursday morning said it launched 200 rockets into Israel — one of its largest attacks yet — following the Israeli assassination of one of the group's senior commanders.
• An all-out war between Israel and Hezbollah would be devastating for both Israel and Lebanon.
• As Israel faces the prospect of a two-front war against Hamas and Hezbollah, military experts warn its advanced Iron Dome defense system could be overwhelmed.

On Thursday morning, Hezbollah said it launched 200 rockets into Israel — one of its largest attacks yet — following the Israeli assassination of one of the group's senior commanders, further ramping up fears over a potential full-blown war between the two heavily armed adversaries.

The Iran-backed Lebanese militant group, which is designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S. and U.K., said it fired at 10 Israeli military sites using a "squadron of drones." Israel's military said that "numerous projectiles and suspicious aerial targets" breached its territory, many of which were intercepted, and that there were no casualties.

Hezbollah has launched thousands of rockets into Israel in the nearly nine months since the latter began its war against Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza on Oct. 7. The rockets fired from Lebanon have killed 18 Israeli soldiers and 10 civilians, Israel says, while Israeli shelling has killed some 300 Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon and around 80 civilians, according to a Reuters tally.

The relatively low number of Israeli casualties is thanks to the country's Iron Dome, a mobile all-weather defense system designed to protect Israeli territory by launching guided missiles to intercept incoming rockets and other short-range threats in mid-air. It has a success