Hezbollah says it has fired a new rocket, Khaibar-1, at Israeli town

[ECH1969]

Breaking

Hezbollah says it has fired a new rocket, Khaibar-1, at the Israeli town of Afula, south of Haifa, the Associated Press reports.

http://www.cnn.com/

[Minstrel Boy]

1. Long-range missiles fired at Afula

Escalation: Security officials say that five long-range missiles, equipped with more explosives than Pajar rockets used by Hizbullah so far, fired at Afula Friday noon. Sources say missiles may have been aimed at Hadera, Netanya. Massive rocket barrages fired by Hizbullah at Israel's north Friday afternoon

Hizbullah steps up attacks: Police officials said that on Friday noon Hizbullah fired at Israel, for the first time since the fighting in the north began, five long-range missiles carrying a greater amount of explosives than the Pajar rockets of the type that has been fired so far. The missiles landed in open areas near Afula and in the area between Afula and Beit Shean. No injuries were reported in the attack.

A short while later sirens were heard in the Haifa and Krayot area and residents were ordered into shelters and protected areas. Some rockets landed in open areas near Haifa. In a separate barrage a rocket landed in Nahariya, hitting a vehicle that immediately caught fire. Another rocket struck a public building in town and damaged it. No injuries were reported in the attacks.

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Shortly after the missiles landed in Afula, four rockets landed in and around Nahariya. Three of the rockets landed in open areas and one hit a vehicle that immediately caught fire. Rescue teams and firefighter were dispatched to the scene and are working to extinguish the flames.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282785,00.html

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

2. Afula is 30 miles from the border.

That's about 10 miles farther than Haifa.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Looks like this war is not going to end anytime soon

and every day that Israel doesn't win, is a day that Hezbollah wins.

[MGD]

12. Every day that Israel "doesn't win", is a day that Lebanon loses

and everyday that Israel wins is a day that Lebanon loses. Israel will win; Hezbollah will be crushed and the innocent, as always, will pay for the sins of the guilty.

[Igel]

14. Hezbollah won't be crushed.

And, like the apocryphal hungry dog that was grateful when its tail was cut off, cooked, and fed to it, Lebanon will be proud all of all Allah's Help that they've gotten from Allah's Party.

Unless the huge groundswell of support that's been reported isn't quite true. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/28/world/middleeast/28refugees.html?ref=world

[sabra]

4. this is bad

in many ways :-(

[IndianaGreen]

6. As long as the US opposes an immediate ceasefire

Bombs will continue to rain in Lebanon, and rockets will continue to fall in Israel.

What part of "stop the killings" do these people fail to understand?

[Massacure]

5. I can't find any data on that rocket

Did Hezbollah give it a new name separate from what the country of origin calls it?

[cal04]

7. Iranian-made missile fired at Israel

HEZBOLLAH fired Iranian-made missiles into Israel for the first time during the 17-day-old Lebanon crisis on Friday, with five rockets landing in the north of the country without causing casualties, Israeli television reported.

Five Zelzal-1 missiles, which have a range of around 100 kilometers (60 miles) landed in the town of Afula, just under 50 kilometers south of Israel's border with Lebanon, Channel 10 reported.

The army said it was checking the type of rockets that had landed in Afula Friday.

Up to now Hezbollah had been using shorter-range Katyusha rockets.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19949239-1702,00.html

[IndianaGreen]

8. Those that want a wider war, will exploit this

Those of us that want a ceasefire, and that don't want the Jesus lunatics to bring about an Apocalypse, must resist the rush to a Middle East war.

[seriousstan]

9. Gee, who could be behind this???.....

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.missilethreat.com/missiles/zelzal-1-2-3_iran.html&h=313&w=500&sz=131&hl=en&start=2&tbnid=QyKdQa4pqLXb_M:&tbnh=81&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3DZelzal-1%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26safe%3Doff%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2005-51,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN

[High Plains]

13. Got any pics of the US-supplied weaponry Israel is using?

[madrchsod]

10. chinese truck mounted weapon

the rockets were used in the iran/iraqi war so there must be plenty of them left over in iran. the model one is a short range missle with the model numbers 2 and 3 much much longer. this is why the idf is blowing the shit out of the roads and trucks on them.

[ShockediSay]

11. Didn't help to piss of the Chinese by killing one of their UN

observers and watering down any form of remonstrance against Israel.

See where the Israel Lobby gets us?

http://ksgnotes1.harvard.edu/Research/wpaper.nsf/rwp/RWP06-011

[Igel]

15. Yeah.

The attack happened what, two days ago?

And the rockets were reported to be going into Lebanon last week.

Like the tunnel used to kidnap Shalit--the abduction of two Palestinians the day before Shalit's abduction provided the motivation to start digging the tunnel to near the Israeli base behind the Green Line a couple of months before.

And Hezbollah said they didn't know the Israeli response would be so harsh. Obviously they can read the future. Hamas is prescient, Hezbollah's prescient, the Chinese are prescient.

[maddezmom]

16. kick

[hedgetrimmer]

17. Israel fears long-range rockets put Tel Aviv in line of fire

~snip~

By Nicholas Blanford, Stephen Farrell and Daniel McGrory

http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,325346,00.jpg

HEZBOLLAH increased its conflict with Israel yesterday by firing a new long-range Khybar missile 30 miles (50km)into the Jewish state.

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 Haifa, and even to Tel Aviv.

Israeli police confirmed that “at least one missile of unknown type” landed in Afula, just south of Nazareth. They said that it was packed with a 100kg warhead and had a range of 60 miles.

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.

more ... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2290538,00.html

[Tom Joad]

18. Israel that "increased the conflict" when they announced everyone in

south lebanon is a target?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/07/28/wmid28.xml