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Terrorism

Rocket threat mushrooms


By Stan Goodenough
March 27, 2008

Arabs to the north and in the south of the Jewish homeland have acquired and are manufacturing rockets whose range endangers Israel more than ever before.

The developments have Israel Defense Forces officials worried, according to reports in the Israeli press Thursday.

Lebanon's Hizb'allah, attacking from the north, have Iranian-supplied rockets that can reach populated areas in most of Israel, and which can even strike Israel's nuclear facility at Dimona in the Negev - hundreds of kilometers to the south of the Lebanese border.

This is according to senior defense officials, who reportedly described as dramatic the upgrading of the terrorist organization's missile arsenal in the months since the Second Lebanon War.

That war, fought in the summer of 2006, saw Hizb'allah launch close to 4,000 rockets at Israel over the period of one month. Their maximum reach then was about 70 kms inside Israel.

Figures released by Israel in early March pegged the current level of Hizb'allah rockets at 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range.

Last July Hizb'allah chief Hassan Nasrallah boasted his rockets could strike "every point and every corner" in Israel.

In Gaza, meanwhile, Palestine Islamic Jihad is reportedly manufacturing more accurate Kassam rockets that can carry twice the amount of explosives as those that have been rained down on Sderot to date, and with a range of more than 12.5 miles as opposed to the current six to seven mile range.

Citing security officials, Ynetnews said the new rocket indicates that Gaza's terror groups have increased efforts to develop new weapons. also with help from outside the Strip.

"The fact that they are able to produce their own long-range rockets…is disturbing and worrying," an army official said.

Right-thinking analysts have warned that allowing the "Palestinians" to assume control of Judea and Samaria will see Israel surrounded on all three sides by rocket-armed Muslims who remain committed to driving the Jews into the Mediterranean, which is the only Arab-free border Israel would have left.

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