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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2290538,00.html
HEZBOLLAH increased its conflict with The
attack raised fears that the group may be preparing to carry out a threat by
its leader, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah, to strike south of Israeli
police confirmed that “at least one missile of unknown type” landed
in Afula, just south of However,
bomb disposal experts quickly established that it was not the most feared
weapon in Hezbollah’s arsenal, the Iranian Zelzal rocket which has a
400kg warhead and a range of 130 miles. Hezbollah’s
al-Manar radio station announced the launch with a fanfare, saying that it had
fired five Khybar 1 missiles — which are named after a Jewish tribe near However,
Israeli experts said that the missiles might simply have been renamed Fajers.
Hezbollah has already used the Iranian-made Fajer-3 to hit Elsewhere
Hezbollah fired 96 smaller rockets at several towns, including one which struck
a hospital in Nahariya, near the Lebanese border, withiout injuring anyone. The
hospital has evacuated all patients into underground bunkers. The
latest attacks came on a day of heavy shellfire, Military
experts in It
came two days after the leader of Hezbollah pledged in a television address to
unveil a “hyper-rocket” that would “take the war to a new
phase”. Israeli
and Lebanese military analysts, meanwhile, believe that the Israeli army may be
planning to shift tactics and increase the intensity of its aerial and
artillery bombardment of villages in southern There
were reports of Israeli troops pulling back from Bint Jbeil, the Hezbollah
stronghold where The
town was under heavy shellfire yesterday in what UN officers suspect is a plan
to force the last civilians to flee before destroying it completely and killing
any remaining Hezbollah fighters, a tactic encouraged by bellicose elements of
the Israeli media. “I
think the Israelis are contemplating flattening villages down to the last
house,” Richard Morczynski, a political officer for the United Nations
Interim Force In Lebanon (Unifil), told The
Times. Major-General Alain Pellegrini, the commander of Unifil,
told The Times that after more
than two weeks of heavy fighting, Hezbollah was “still strong”, and
only a political solution would end the conflict. “A military victory
will never be possible,” he said. Unifil
estimates that 800 to 1,000 Hezbollah combatants are deployed throughout the
south, operating in groups as small as 12 to 15. “Sometime
they use radio frequencies that are the same as ours and we can hear them
talk,” Mr Morczynski said.
“They
say, ‘This is Brother 13. We are going to carry out Operation 7. Hope you
are all safe’. “They
are mobile, dedicated and willing to act. When there’s shelling,
they’re not scared. They’re not sitting in bunkers.” HEZBOLLAH’S
ARSENAL Israeli commanders say that Hezbollah has fired around 1,500
rockets into · 122mm
Katyushas: range 13 miles, warhead 6kg · 122mm
improved Katyushas: range 19 miles,
warhead, 6kg · 220mm Syrian
rockets: range 43 miles, warhead 40kg · 240mm
rockets: range 6 miles, warhead 18kg · 240mm
Iranian Fajr 3: range 26 miles,
warhead 50kg (not used yet) · 333mm
Iranian Fajr 5: range 46 miles,
warhead 90kg · 610mm
‘ZelZal’: range 130 miles,
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