On Friday afternoon as people were getting ready for Shabbat, once again rockets fell at least 90 of them, which resulted in around 40 people being wounded.

But the big rocket news for Friday is not the number of rockets that fell, but rather the new type of rocket that fell on Afula. Israeli security sources have identified this new rocket as the Fajr-5 missiles which carry a 440 pound war head and can travel up to 50 miles. This rocket was designed in 2006 by Iran and it 333 mm sized rocket and when it hits and explodes it has a burst radius of 100 meters.

The IAF destroyed the rocket launchers. The rockets when they launch leaves a plum of smoke in the air and thus allowed the IAF to know where the missile was fired from.

As noted above the size of the rocket is 333m mm while until now the largest rocket has been 220 mm. The launchers are not dual purpose and the launcher of the Fajr 5 takes time to become mobile after it has fired. As show today enough time for Israel to kill it.