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Israel: Hamas has long-range missiles
At the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting Tuesday, Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin, head of military intelligence, said Hamas fired a rocket with a distance capability of 37.2 miles, off the Gaza coast into the sea last week, Maariv reported Wednesday.
Such a rocket has the capability of hitting major central Israeli cities, the newspaper quoted him saying. Lebanon's Hezbollah has similar rockets in its arsenal, he said.
Iran continues to fund, train and smuggle weapons to Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas, Yadlin said adding, the Iranian weapons were being transferred via Turkey and Syria, Maariv said.
Hamas, is not interested in a confrontation with Israel at present, and instead opts to strengthen its control in the Gaza Strip, the newspaper quoted Yadlin saying.
At the same time, the terror organization continues to strengthen its military capabilities and smuggle weapons into Gaza using tunnels from Egypt, the paper quoted him saying.
In the north, Hezbollah continues to boost its arsenal with financial and technological assistance from Iran, Maariv quoted the intelligence chief saying.
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This news arrived on: 11/04/2009
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11-04-2009 10:41
bj wrote:
long range death
The day Hamas fires that weapon will begin WWIII. I don't know all the particulars of life after WWIII but I do know that we will be back to waging war with clubs and rocks for the next 1000 years. These people are so limited in their intellectual abilitities that they do not know what they are starting. Israel may hesitate for 3 seconds but I doubt it. They have been under threat for many years now and they may have to die but they will die to a man, woman and child and there will be no Arabs left when when the last bomb blows.
And the rest of us are going to be paying the price for a nuclear war for a very long time.
And the rest of us are going to be paying the price for a nuclear war for a very long time.
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