Hezbollah fires missiles deeper into Israel...Afula hit by Khaibar-1 rockets.

The war between Israel and Hezbollah has escalated to a new level.

The Israeli city of Afula was hit by a new, more powerful rocket identified by Hezbollah as the Khaibar-1. Afula is located about 30 miles south of the Israel/Lebanon border.This is the furthest south that a Hezbollah missile has hit. The Khaibar-1 is actually an Iranian Fajr-5 with a payload of 100 kilos (220 pounds) and a range of 45 miles.

(Khaibar was the scene of Mohammed's slaughter and enslavement of the Jewish city of Medina in Saudi Arabia.)

Hezbollah is also in possesion of a number of Iranian Zelzal-2 missiles whose range easily covers Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Israeli intel is reporting that Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has received permission from Tehran to fire missiles at central Israel and that this could start over the weekend.

It still astounds me that Israel apparently is wondering about the niceties of `world opinion' when its very existence as a nation is threatened.

Olmert may need to do a full scale invasion of Lebanon whether he wants to or not...