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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hezbollah missiles could hit Tel Aviv
2006-07-15
JERUSALEM - The Lebanese Shia militia Hezbollah has rockets capable of reaching IsraelÂ’s economic capital of Tel Aviv, an Israeli military intelligence official told AFP on Saturday. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told reporters that Hezbollah was believed to have around 150 long-range rockets capable of reaching targets between 45 and 200 kilometres (25 to 120 miles) away.

He said that Israel believed the Lebanese militia could use these rockets to target Tel Aviv, a city of more than one million people located around 120 kilometres south of the Lebanese border.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah boasted in May that his movement had no fewer than 12,000 missiles in its arsenal. Around 100 are believed to be Zelsal-1 missiles, with the necessary 150-kilometre range to reach Tel Aviv, according to the authoritative JaneÂ’s Defence Weekly.
The Zelzal missile is one of a family of solid-fuel missiles, according to Wikipedia. The Iranians developed these with considerable help from the Chinese in the early 1990s. According to Missile Threat, the three variants (-1, -2, -3) have at best a simple, inertial guidance system with ranges of 150 to 400 km and a 600 kg payload. Apparently they're mobile enough to be mounted on a truck launcher. According to the latter source, Hezbollah received about 220 of these or variant type missiles from Iran in 2004; they're stored in the Bekaa.
Posted by:Steve White

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