Israel Responds to Rocket Bombardment with Loud Noise

Earlier I described how Israel's unwillingness to suffer the political consequences of inflicting casualties has created a paralyzed retaliatory strategy of empty threats and attacks on empty buildings and empty fields. This story describes another tactic: sonic booms to frighten Gaza residents and wake them up at night. Sonic booms are so commonplace in Israel that they attract about as much attention as car alarms in New York.

Here is a detailed history of the phenomenon from Steven Plaut, who calls the empty threats/empty building attacks strategy the "Really Really Hard" Doctrine.