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Intel chief: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv

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Intel chief: Gaza rockets can reach metro Tel Aviv

By AMY TEIBEL (AP) – 58 minutes ago

JERUSALEM — Hamas militants in Gaza have successfully test-fired in recent days an Iranian rocket able to reach metropolitan Tel Aviv, the country's military intelligence chief said Tuesday.

Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin told parliament's foreign affairs and defense committee that the rocket could fly 37 miles (60 kilometers), which would put Israel's largest urban center at risk, Israeli media reported.

Until now, rockets fired from Gaza have reached up to 25 miles (40 kilometers), putting one-eighth of Israel's population within rocket range.

No further details were immediately available from Yadlin's testimony before the closed session.

Defense officials say Palestinian militants in Gaza generally test-fire rockets into the Mediterranean Sea.

It was not clear whether the rocket actually flew 37 miles (60 kilometers), or why Yadlin described the rocket as being of Iranian origin.

Israeli ballistics experts have said paint, tool work and Latin lettering on other rocket fragments point to Iranian origins. But the military has not publicly released clear evidence proving Iranian involvement.

Hamas, the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza, had no comment on Yadlin's testimony.

Israel launched a bruising war against Gaza militants last winter to quash rocket and mortar fire that had bombarded southern Israeli communities for eight years.

Although the attacks have decreased dramatically — from 3,300 rockets and mortars fired in 2008 to 250 so far this year — Israeli officials say weapons continue to reach militants through tunnels under Gaza's border with Egypt.

Most of the Hamas rockets targeted at Israel are crude projectiles cobbled together in small metal shops. But militants also have fired more sophisticated, longer-range weapons, believed made from parts originating in Syria or Iran.

While rockets cannot match the firepower of Israel's military, they have killed 21 civilians and four security personnel over the past eight years and have been highly effective in terrorizing residents of Israel's southern communities.

Israel is also vulnerable to rocket fire from the north, where Lebanese Hezbollah guerrillas have amassed tens of thousands of projectiles, some capable of reaching southern Israel.

Israel fought a monthlong war with Hezbollah in 2006 after it captured two soldiers in a cross-border raid. Militants bombarded northern Israel with some 4,000 rockets during that conflict.

Israel's high-tech military is now working on a system known as "Iron Dome" to stop the Hamas and Hezbollah rockets. Over the summer the system had its first live trial and according to the defense ministry, it intercepted and destroyed an incoming rocket.

The system is scheduled to be fully operational by the end of 2010.

Israel is also worried about long-range missiles — particularly from Iran — and has put in place an elaborate defense system to intercept and neutralize missiles before they hit.

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Iran sends another hint at the reprisal to an attack.

Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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11/3/2009 1:07 PM

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El bumpo. Ezekiel 7:19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

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11/3/2009 1:14 PM

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With all the crybabies complaining how Israel killed Gazan woman and babies, I don't hear them criticizing Hamas for not providing for their people instead of spending all their resources on procuring weapons of death to use against Israel. Too many pacifist Neville Chamberlains in this world.

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