TEL AVIV [MENL] -- Hizbullah has acquired advanced Russian-origin weapons from Syria.

Israeli military sources said Hizbullah has deployed advanced rocket-propelled grenades procured from Syria. The sources said the RPGs, which arrived in April 2005, were used in the massive Hizbullah barrage on northern Israel in December.

"Hizbullah is using rocket-propelled grenades that were bought by Syria from Russia," Israeli military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, told the Israeli Yediot Aharonot daily on Dec. 29.

Later military sources identified the RPG acquired by Hizbullah as the RPG-29N. They said the rocket used in the launcher was the PG-29V.