41.   An AFP photographer who visited the site said three small rockets were fired against the monastery from an overlooking hill where police found the rocket launches.

42.   But in Oslo, the director of the Andoeya rocket range, Kolbjoern Adolfsen, told AFP Russia was informed of the rocket launch in line with regulatory procedures.

43.   But he denied press reports here that the foreign ministry had erred by not passing to the Russian military details received from Norway about the rocket launch.

44.   The system would use pilotless drones capable of spotting rocket launches towards Israel and destroying the missiles with air-to-air weapons, the radio said, citing unnamed military sources.

45.   Israeli artillery already in place in the zone pounded away throughout the night at the rocket launch sites, the officials said.