Israel: Hezbollah increases rocket range
By Matti Friedman, Associated Press Writer
Thu March 27, 2008
JERUSALEM - With Iranian backing, Hezbollah
guerrillas have dramatically increased their rocket range and can
now threaten most of Israel, senior Israeli defense officials said.
The Lebanese group has acquired new Iranian rockets with a range of
about 185 miles, the officials said Wednesday. That means the
guerrillas can hit anywhere in Israel's heavily populated center and
reach as far south as Dimona, where Israel's nuclear reactor is
located.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not
authorized to divulge the confidential intelligence assessment to
the media.
When Israel and Hezbollah fought a monthlong war in 2006, Hezbollah
fired nearly 4,000 rockets into Israel. The longest-range rockets
fired, which Israel said were Iranian-made, hit some 45 miles inside
Israel.
Although Israel's air force managed to take out most of the group's
long-range rockets, the military failed throughout the war to halt
the short-range rocket fire that paralyzed northern Israel and
killed 40 Israeli civilians.
After the war, the U.N. dispatched a peacekeeping force to distance
Hezbollah from the border and prevent the group from rearming. Since
then, Hezbollah hasn't launched any rockets at Israel. Two incidents
of rocket fire were not claimed by the group and were likely the
work of smaller militant factions.
But Israel says Hezbollah's Iranian and Syrian patrons have steadily
provided the group with large amounts of rockets since then, many of
them capable of hitting central Israel. However, it has not revealed
the evidence for its claims.
Hezbollah declined comment Thursday. Yasmina Bouzian, a spokeswoman
for the U.N. peacekeepers, said the international forces had "seen
no sign or had any report of movement of weapons" in south Lebanon.
Iranian officials were not available for comment. Iran has never
admitted arming Hezbollah, saying its support for the group is
limited to civil and humanitarian aid.
The defense officials did not say how many of the new rockets
Hezbollah has obtained. However, Israelis have said previously that
overall, Hezbollah now has many more rockets in its arsenal than the
14,000 it had before the conflict — likely more than double that
number.
In early March, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reported Israeli
claims that Hezbollah's arsenal includes 10,000 long-range rockets
and 20,000 short-range rockets in southern Lebanon.
Israel also faces near-daily rocket barrages in the south from
Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip, ruled by the Islamic group
Hamas. The rockets from Gaza, mainly crude short-range projectiles,
have killed 13 Israelis since 2001. Like Hezbollah, Hamas has strong
ties to Iran.
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