[Ha'aretz] Amos Harel - Senior Israel Defense Forces officers believe that Hamas has succeeded in expediting its production of rockets. Senior officers say that with the smuggling into Gaza of large quantities of military-grade explosives, this has solved the problem of storing rockets for long periods without their becoming ineffective. The accumulation of thousands of rockets over time will allow Hamas, at a time of its choosing, to initiate a major and enduring bombardment of Sderot and other towns in the western Negev, just like Hizballah did by targeting the Galilee during the war in Lebanon this summer.
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