For years, the border towns and kibbutzim in the upper Golan section of Israel, near Lebanon and Syria, have been under threat from Katyusha missiles. Cities just a few miles further south — like Haifa and Tsfat, the crumbling, quiet mountaintop home of Jewish mysticism — were safe; relying on short-range Katyusha rockets, Lebanese militants had the ability to sew terror only twelve miles into Israel. That changed on Thursday, when Hezbollah launched a new weapon, the Ra’ad rocket, which hit Tsfat and, for the first time, Haifa, 20 miles from the border. 220,000 Israelis stayed in bomb shelters last night to avoid the missiles, Ha’Aretz reports.
The exact make-up and configuration of these weapons is unclear. Some sources call it a modified anti-tank rocket; others a cruise missile. Range estimates vary from 120 to 350 kilometers, or more. One report calls it a 122mm projectile. Hezbollah claims the Iranian-made “rocket is of 333 mm in diameter and has a warhead of 100 kilograms.“
Hezbollah’s arsenal is likely filled with even deadlier weapons. Israel believes the terrorist group “has missiles that can hit most of Israel, and which could even strike Be’er Sheva [deep in Israel’s southern, Negev desert] under optimum conditions,” Ha’Aretz notes.
Iran supplied Hezbollah with solid-fuel, Zelzal-2 missiles with a 200-km range, but these are not very accurate, since they do not have a self-guidance system.
The Zelzal-2 missiles, intended to strike broad targets such as communities and cities, are equipped with explosive warheads weighing up to 600 kilograms…
Hezbollah’s original Katyusha rockets had a range of 12 kilometers to 22 kilometers. At a later stage, it obtained Iranian Fajar-3 and Fajar-5 rockets, with a range of 45 kilometers and 75 kilometers, respectively. Hezbollah did not use these rockets until the current conflict.
I was supposed to spend my honeymoon next month lounging around Haifa, hiking in the Golan, maybe spending the sabbath in Tsfat. Now, these Hezbollah weapons have introduced a new calculus: how much fear is my wife willing to take?
(Big ups: Roggio, Umansky)
israeli intelligence
heh heh
unless they want to plunge the whole region into chaos, the israelis are acting pretty stupid right now
I have been looking for this information for days. Thanks a lot.
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Euphemisms; Collateral damage equals innocent dead women and children. The USS liberty equals a Med. cruise gone bad. God will judge the murderers of each innocent on both sides and the War profiteers will burn in Hell forever! Amen. Shalom. And God bless Neil Young
Go ahead and dab a drop of blood onto the surface of the baloon instead if you want, then only one baloon is needed. Your baloon might be recognized by the Aliens up there.
istanbul Go ahead and dab a drop of blood onto the surface the baloon instead if you want, Your baloon might be recognized by the Aliens up there.
Please don erase my memory at the time of death and give me a metal casket that locks real good and 40 of them in a row and three forighn embassy agents different will decide wich one is the best one. A plate with micro glass sqaures that say a thing in different langouge. And I hope that they will be a picture of the interpretor that would of died if she got the truth about the villions in that raow of magna fieng glass beads written word.
I hope that you let the poor have a new fermalda hide a different color with an entire different formula nothing to do with physics just health feeling anti cancer anti death death put the blood in the big bottle not plastic dont drain it
Go with the flow the best crystals in the groung 1000 miles down cant be dug up so they can shrink it with time travel. They have to avoid the crystals in the sacred acordiance before mining some spots ot a big whole will form in the earth. Their trying to go 1000 miles down first.
Lemme guess.… your wondering about how much terror you have to face? What about the thousands of dead Lebanese and Palestinians killed by F-16’s dropping 2 ton bombs on their homes, hospitals, schools, and places of worship.
I’m sorry but Hezbollah using, or Hamas using WW2 weaponry against the 4th most powerful nuclear armed military in the world.…
This post has got to be a joke.