By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
TEL AVIV – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have manufactured improved rockets that can travel deeper into the Jewish state, placing hundreds of thousands more Israelis within firing range, a leader and spokesman of the Islamic Jihad terror group claimed to WND.
Israeli security officials said the improved rocket capabilities of Palestinians in Gaza came about with the aid of Iran, which provided technology and training to the terror groups.
Abu Muhammad, a Gaza-based militant and spokesperson for Islamic Jihad, said his organization manufactured rockets that can travel up to 14.3 miles (23 kilometers) into Israel from Gaza. He said the new projectiles afford Palestinian groups the ability to reach further into Israel and to launch the rockets from anywhere within the Strip.
Since Israel evacuated the Gaza Strip in August 2005, Islamic Jihad has been responsible for firing hundreds of rockets from the territory aimed at nearby Jewish cities.
Until now, Palestinian terrorists in Gaza have mostly been firing Qassam rockets from the northern Gaza Strip. Qassams are improvised steel rockets, about four feet in length, filled with explosives and fuel. They can travel between one and four miles, depending on the sophistication ...   more »

By Aaron Klein
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
JERUSALEM – Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups aided by Iran have been using a four-month-old cease-fire to smuggle weapons into the Gaza Strip and build Hezbollah-like guerrilla armies to confront the Jewish state, the Israel Defense Forces announced yesterday.
In December, three weeks after the Nov. 23 truce was forged, WND quoted top Gazan terror leaders explaining they would use the cease-fire to smuggle in weapons, fortify military positions and build guerrilla armies.
Yoav Galant, chief of the IDF's Gaza-area division, told reporters Iran has been training Palestinian terrorists the past few months in military tactics, enabling Hamas to grow from a ragtag terror group into a well-organized militia resembling an army – complete with battalions, companies, platoons, special forces for surveillance, snipers and explosive experts. Galant compared Hamas to the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia which last summer engaged in 33-days of confrontations with the IDF, bombarding northern Israeli population centers with thousands of rockets. The Israeli chief said Hamas terror leaders have been traveling to Iran, Syria and Lebanon for instruction by Iranian experts and asserted some Iranian agents were operating in the Gaza Strip. He said Hamas could soon be ready to ...   more »