Wednesday, 21 November 2012

New Iran missiles said headed to Gaza



An Iranian 150-ton freighter loaded with short- and long-range missiles left Iran Sunday for Gaza.

 The cargo included 220 short-range missiles and 50 improved long-range Fajar-5 rockets, intelligence sources told DEBKAfile, a Jerusalem-based military intelligence website.

The Fajar-5s have a 200-kilo warhead, the site said.

DEBKAfile said sources report four big Sudanese shipping boats sailed out of Port Sudan early Monday and are waiting to rendezvous with the freighter Cargo Star and offload its missile cargo at sea. Tehran would then tell the Sudanese the route to take to the Sinai coast, and the missiles would be smuggled through tunnels into Gaza, the report said.

Meanwhile, Israeli forces have killed more than 100 Palestinians during the six-day conflict in Gaza, Palestinians said Monday.

The Ma'an News Agency reported an Israeli airstrike injured eight civilians, two seriously, in the bombing of a family home in Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. A physically disabled man, Muhammad Zeidan, was killed in an airstrike on an agricultural area near al-Nuseirat.

Israeli planes also bombed a tower block housing several international media offices in Gaza for the second day, Ma'an said, killing a military leader of Islamic Jihad and a civilian.

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