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Published: Tue, 3 Nov 2009
Description: Israel says Gaza militants tested new rocket
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" Israel's intelligence chief says militants in Gaza tested a dangerous new weapon. A rocket capable of flying 37 miles that puts Tel Aviv and other major population centers. -- in the firing line. Mike Tobin has details live from Jerusalem how does this new kind of rocket differ from the ones we saw during the last Gaza war --"
" We -- John prior to this the longest range we've seen out of Iraqi coming out of the Gaza Strip with some 25 miles and that was a grad rocket that had been smuggled into the Gaza Strip and fired during the last war. Those -- make -- some rockets fly just a fraction of that distance that tells you this was indeed a weapons smuggled into the Gaza Strip. The intelligence chief major general -- told the foreign affairs committee today. That it was smuggled in with the support of Iran although he didn't offer up any evidence to support that claim however Iran has unabashed about the fact that it supports Hamas and the intelligence community we'll tell you. Missing -- that -- supports Hamas not only with cash but weapons and the same goes for the other militant organizations inside strip. Hamas for its part today refused to comment on its job. But wasn't. One in the main goals of that last Gaza war offensive to stop the smuggling. The two goals of the Gaza war -- to stop the rocket fire and stop the smuggling. Now the militants in the Gaza Strip have been largely deterred from firing the rockets since the Gaza war however AS spokesman for the Foreign Ministry told me today that this points out. The folly in the efforts to curb the smuggling from going back into the Gaza Strip -- the post war efforts to stop the smuggling in fact the intelligence chief told the foreign affairs committee that the militant organizations in the Gaza Strip have replenish their arsenals to levels they were prior to the Gaza -- John. Mike Tobin reporting live for -- thing."
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