Iranian rockets slam INTO Israel - CoverUps.com

March 2008

Sources: Tehran armed Palestinian terrorists, may escalate regional violence

Aaron Klein for WorldNetDaily.com reports that long-range rockets fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli cities the past few days were manufactured in and imported from Iran, according to Israeli security officials speaking to WND. The details below can mean only one thing: an Iran bent on stirring up trouble

• In a major escalation of violence, Hamas has in the past few days been firing long range Grad rockets at the strategic Israeli port city of Ashkelon, home to some 125,000 Israelis about 11 miles from Gaza. Ashkelon houses a major electrical plant that powers most of the Gaza Strip.
• Grad rockets are longer-range projectiles similar to the Katyusha rocket, which the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group successfully used in 2006 to barrage northern Israel, killing 42 Israeli civilians and reportedly wounding over 4,000.
• The Grad travels up to 12 miles and delivers a larger payload than the Qassam rocket, which travels four to five miles and is the usual rocket of choice for Palestinians.
• At least three Grad rockets landed in Ashkelon today, wounding a woman who had used her body to protect her two children.
• A least a dozen Grads have slammed into Ashkelon since Friday, causing injuries to civilians and massive damage to houses and buildings.
• At least 140 rockets, mostly Qassams, were targeted at the Israeli city of Sderot, bombarding the working-class city of 25,000 people, which is located nearly three miles from the Gaza border. One man was killed and dozens were injured. Thousands of rockets have been regularly launched at Sderot since Israel retreated from the Gaza Strip in 2005.
• In response to the rocket attacks, the Israel Air Force and Israel Defense Forces have been targeting Hamas positions in Gaza.
• According to Israeli security officials, the Grad rockets fired at Israel in recent days were made in Iran and smuggled disassembled into the Gaza Strip, where they were then assembled. It is thought a large number of rockets were brought into Gaza in January, when Hamas breached the border between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, sources said.
• According to a senior source in Hamas' so-called military wing speaking to WND, the terror group has more than 300 Grad rockets, in addition to the "hundreds" of other Grads possessed by other Gaza-based terror organizations, including the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees.

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Iranian Rockets Slam Israel
By Aaron Klein

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Our Take

Iran has stated before that it wants Israel “wiped off the map.” How long before we start taking their claims seriously? Long range weapons in the hands of Iran are a recipe for a major international crisis. How easy it is to forget how World War II started – with the West turning a blind eye towards Hitler. Can we afford to repeat that mistake? Especially if Iran should get their hands on long range ballistic missiles?