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| Israel Readies for 1,500 Rockets a Day from Hizbullah, Hamas |
| 2016-09-18 |
| [AnNahar] Israel's army estimates that thousands of rockets could slam into Israel in any future conflagration, military sources said Friday ahead of a nationwide civil defense drill. "Total war on several fronts, destruction of essential equipment and infrastructure and heavy rocket bombardment" all form part of the scenario for the exercise, which runs from Sunday until September 21, the army said. The drill is based on projections of the army's Home Front Command, which estimates 1,500 rockets crashing into the country each day, military sources said in a briefing to Israeli news hounds, local media reported. The projectiles could be launched simultaneously by Leb's Hizbullah ... Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistanceand purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... across Israel's northern border and to a far lesser extent from Hamas, the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,-ruled Gazoo in the south. Hamas is said to have been left seriously weakened after a 2014 Gazoo war against Israel, but it still holds thousands of rockets, according to a military official. Hizbullah has at least 100,000 and probably more, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity ... for fear of being murdered... Only around one in 100 rockets is likely to hit a building, military sources say, with the rest falling on open ground or being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system. They say 95 percent of rockets fired will likely carry a light payload and have a range of less than 40 kilometers (25 miles), but Hizbullah can hit densely-populated central Israel with dozens of rockets each day. The Home Front Command, tasked with leading and coordinating civil defense, regularly publishes maps showing the maximum time, by location, that Israelis have to take shelter after air raid sirens sound. In Tel Aviv, Israel's seaside commercial and leisure capital, the time to scramble to safety has been reassessed from 90 seconds at present to 60 in the next conflict. After a 2006 war with Hizbullah, an official inquiry criticized authorities for lack of preparedness and organization in civil defense procedures. During that conflict, the Lebanese, Iran-backed group rained about 4,000 rockets on Israel and sent a million civilians into shelters, many of them dilapidated and cramped. The 34 days of fighting took the lives of more than 1,200 on the Lebanese side, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, almost all soldiers. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 I'm surprised Obama hasn't given GPS kit tech to the Iranians/hezbos. That little item would change everything. |
| Posted by: The peanut gallery 2016-09-18 22:31 |
| #2 Or a big mutha on that black cube in Mecca. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2016-09-18 20:51 |
| #1 In an existential war, - at some point, small tactial nukes become a very viable option |
| Posted by: Frank G 2016-09-18 13:30 |