Word: katyusha
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...Katyusha rockets and Kalashnikov rifles, however, weren't on the menu. The Middle Eastern equivalent of the diplomatic rubber-chicken dinner consists of about a dozen Arab courses of grilled meats, hummus, and stuffed vegetables served in a brightly lit hall, male guests outnumbering women by around...
...bout ended in August, both Israel and Hizballah have been gearing up for a possible Round 2. Israeli, Arab and Lebanese sources hostile to Hizballah told TIME that the organization has been busy restocking its arsenal with help from Iran and Syria. Hizballah has taken delivery of Syrian-made Katyusha missiles with a range of almost 60 miles, able to strike the Israeli port of Haifa and maybe the northern outskirts of Tel Aviv. The Israeli military estimates that Hizballah's arsenal now has over 20,000 short-range missiles and hundreds of medium-range ones. This arms pipeline starts...
...Israel’s borders and an internationally recognized act of war, was the straw that broke the camel’s back. From the moment Israel disengaged from the region in August 2005, its civilians have been subject to thousands of rocket attacks from Gaza. The firing of Katyusha rockets from Gaza and the daily barrages of Qassams threatened Israel’s security, and Israel’s operation in Gaza was concentrated on undermining this threat. If anything, the media has failed to call attention to these constant rocket attacks, which began after Israel evacuated Gaza...
...rearm every few days impractical, and Israel would be forced to develop fixed positions and supply lines - something they've carefully avoided until now, because these offer very tempting targets to Hizballah; Deploying up to the Litani wouldn't necessarily eliminate the rocket threat to northern Israel, because even Katyusha rockets fired from north of the river could hit the city of Kiryat Shmona and other Israeli population centers; Once in, the Israelis may find it difficult to easily extract themselves - the international force that would ostensibly take over does not yet exist, and there are doubts over whether...
...Regardless of what preceded it, there is no disputing that the position was hit by at least two aerial bombs at 7:20 p.m., killing all four observers. UNIFIL insists there were no reports of Hizballah firing Katyusha rockets from the vicinity of observers' position, and that there was no obvious target for the Israelis that was discernible to UNIFIL. The officer contends that the Israelis did not halt their air strikes because "they don't care. They feel they have more important issues on their mind to hit Hizballah. Everything else is secondary." According to a senior U.N. official...