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| Five rockets slam into Israeli resort |
| 2010-08-02 |
| FIVE rockets slammed into the southern Israeli resort of Eilat on Monday but there were no immediate reports of casualties, army radio reported. Israeli police confirmed that a series of explosions had taken place in Eilat but could not confirm a rocket attack. "There were a number of explosions heard in and around Eilat," police spokesman Mickey Rosenfeld said. "As yet, nothing has been found on the ground," he added. The radio said at least one of the rockets had landed in the sea. There were explosions just across the border in Jordan a couple of months back. I suggested at the time that they were from missiles fired from Sinai which overshot. It looks like the shooters have figured out the range. |
| Posted by:phil_b |
| #4 Local Officials are claiming the rockets that struck both ISRAEL + JORDAN appear to be IRANIAN-MADE??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-08-02 22:45 |
| #3 subsequent analysis indicates one rocket exploded in the Sinai one or maybe two went into the sea near Aquba zero or one landed in Israel near Eilat the rest hit Jordan within or near Aquba |
| Posted by: lord garth 2010-08-02 12:22 |
| #2 They certainly are busy bees in Israel today. phil_b's article was posted at 12:26 Israeli time. Two hours later Jerusalem Post staff put up another article: Jordan: 1 dead in rocket attack Defense sources believe 6 Iranian-made Katyushas fired from Sinai. Jordan condemned Monday the firing of a rocket that struck near the Intercontinental Hotel in Aqaba in which a Jordanian man was killed and four others were injured. The rocket was one of six which struck the area, including a second rocket in Jordan, one near Eilat, two in the Red Sea and one in the Sinai Peninsula. The rockets were almost definitely fired from Sinai, according to sources in the defense establishment quoted by Israel Radio. The rockets were suspected to have been launched from the Sinai Peninsula by Islamic Jihad. Eilat Police sappers said that the Grad-type Katyushas were Iranian-made, with a range of some 20 kilometers. The rockets reportedly weighed 6 kilograms each. In April, two rockets fired landed in Eilat and the adjacent Jordanian port of Aqaba. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-08-02 11:26 |
| #1 Egypt: 'Impossible' that rockets were fired from Sinai But we all know that denial flows through everything in Egypt. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2010-08-02 06:46 |