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2006 Monday 17 July

Israel announces to have destroyed in the Lebanon an Iranian missile capable of reaching Tel Aviv

JERUSALEM ( AP) - A missile with long reach of Iranian manufacture, capable of reaching Tel Aviv, was destroyed on Monday during a raid of the Israeli aviation in the Lebanon, announced Israeli military responsibles.

The aviation aimed at a lorry transporting apparently several missiles, clarified these responsibles on behalf of (under the cover of) the anonymity. The power of the explosion sent to the air at least a missile, which fell near. According to the responsibles, it was about a missile of type Zilzal, about a reach about 120km.

The Lebanese televisions, they added, spread(diffused) images of the incident, describing by mistake the missile destroyed as Israeli plane falling on the ground.

In the space of about a week of violence, the activists of the Hezbollah pulled missiles until about forty kilometres inside the Israeli territory. But the responsibles worry about a possible attack on Tel Aviv, situated in approximately 120km in the South of the border with the Lebanon.


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