Israeli officials are increasingly worried that rockets fired from Gaza could hit the Dimona nuclear plant, the London Times reported Friday (see GSN, Oct. 3, 2008).
Israel has responded to rocket strikes from the Palestinian organization Hamas with an aggressive air and ground campaign that has killed hundreds in Gaza.
Hamas is believed to possess Grad rockets, along with longer-range Fajr-3 rockets. Eventually, it could obtain weaponry capable of hitting Dimona, home to Israel's lone nuclear reactor and the suspected storage site of the nation's widely assumed nuclear warhead arsenal, officials said (James Hider, London Times, Jan. 2).