MIDDLE EAST Palestinian militants based in the Gaza Strip may now have the ability to fire rockets with a range of 60km, putting Tel Aviv and other Israeli population centres at risk, senior Israeli officials said on Tuesday.
Amos Yadlin, the director of Israeli military intelligence, told a parliamentary committee that Hamas, the Islamist group that controls Gaza, had recently test-fired a rocket with a 60-km range. Until now, Gaza-based militants have only been able to strike targets within a 40-km radius.
