Israeli defense expert: Israel vastly inflating missile numbers
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Syrian-made missiles.
BY RALPH LOPEZ
[A] winner of the Israel Defense Prize, Dr. Moti Shefer, has said that Israel is inserting “virtual” incoming Hamas rockets into operators’ radar screens in order to claim higher than warranted success rates.
Dr. Shefer, who does work in exotic areas of defense and holds a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford, said in an interview on Israel’s Radio 103 last a week:
The remark was reported in Israel’s popular Globes “Israel’s Business Arena” website.
Dr. Shefer said:
194 Palestinians killed. One Israeli civilian has been killed by the rocket attacks, in an attack near the Gaza border. The Palestinian Health Ministry says that half of the dead and wounded are women and children. Gaza has one of the youngest demographics in the world, with 45% of the population being under the age of 14.
Dr. Shefer’s comments came as Israel claims that Hamas now has the capacity to build long-range, unguided rockets with ranges of up to 60 miles, capable of reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
Reuters reported yesterday:
blockade since 2007. Residents have long complained that medicines and vital supplies have not been allowed in.
Egypt destroyed the tunnels between it and Gaza in 2007, when Hamas took power. The M-302 has a weight of a little over a half-ton.
The large missiles required to traverse the roughly 50 miles between Gaza and Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem, require specialized launch vehicles which are large and slow-moving. Photos released by Israeli press officials show Hamas fighters with rockets about the height of a man, on metal rods staked into the earth.
The Gaza death toll this week included four boys who were killed when Israeli warships shelled a Gaza beach. Half of dead in Gaza airstrikes are women and children.