Israel Readies for 1,500 Rockets a Day from Hizbullah, Hamas
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 reporters, local media reported.
The projectiles could be launched simultaneously by Lebanon's Hizbullah across Israel's northern border and to a far lesser extent from Hamas-ruled Gaza in the south.
Hamas is said to have been left seriously weakened after a 2014 Gaza 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.
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.
16 September 2016, 19:23
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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.
According to the iranian hezbollah every terrorist of theirs is a civilian.
16 September 2016, 19:51
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when you get martyred like those two in your avatar are you considered civilian?
17 September 2016, 20:07
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israel readies for a confrontation, so does lebanon. we dont have the iron dome but we have the iron balls, lol. any israeli soldier coming this way will be sent back crying, as in 2006, and as in 2000.
17 September 2016, 20:16
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in your own language my dear hasbara shills:
https://youtu.be/754AT7o5qx0?t=2m12s
16 September 2016, 19:56
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you must change your name by now, and paint your face, @lubnani.masi7i.
16 September 2016, 19:24
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Both Israel and Ebola want war. One to win it and the other to lose it.
16 September 2016, 19:53
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"Israel Readies for 1,500 Rockets a Day from Hizbullah, Hamas"
Then try to figure out just how many will land on Hizballah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza.
How many Lebanese civilians will be killed or maimed because their government allows Hizballah to defy UN Resolution, and keep their weapons, also south of the Litani River.
17 September 2016, 20:23
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you dare speak of UN resolutions!!!?!?!? buzz off ya dirty israeli, your hypocritical propaganda here only make us despise you more.
17 September 2016, 20:25
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true to your nature, threatening to "kill or maim" lebanese civilians because you're too cowardly to fight the fighters. it may seem normal to you, because you have been doing it for so long and always finding ever more twisted ways to justify it, but targeting civilians is a war crime, and reckoning will come.
17 September 2016, 22:04
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i was wondering if you were a takfiri or an israeli, there aren't many differences, but you just revealed yourself with that last comment. only an israeli would use that propaganda line.
16 September 2016, 21:26
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I know I know, I promised you guys a calm summer 2006 but then orders came from the Big Popopooba in the Holy See in Tehran to create a diversion to take the heat off their nuclear problem and that trumps my promises to you every time. Bass laou kounto 2a3lam that it was gonna cost 1500 innocent Lebanese dead, tens of millions in damages, the whole infrastructure in the dump, most of her villages in the south flattened (I will not say thank you Qatar, KSA and UAE because I am forbidden to say it) ogn the other side, less than 200 Israelis dead, mostly civilian and more than a third of those Arabs.. all I can say in my defense is, oops!
16 September 2016, 22:59
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The one and only kind of traitors are the Ebola followers. If they want war, let them do it. I will not sympathize with them any more because we want a peaceful Lebanon where our children can grow like in any other free country on this planet.
The more they insult us, the more I am proud of myself, because insults coming from idiots and traitors are true compliments.
16 September 2016, 23:01
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This is the painful reality of having traitors inside our country.
17 September 2016, 01:12
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Both highly weaponized, overtly religious, and illegally occupy land that's not there...AND they both use Christians and Sunni's...just saying :)
17 September 2016, 13:45
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Meanwhile we read that it is Israel that has signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority to supply Natural Gas from the Israeli off-shore fields to the Gaza Strip.
Just think that this could have been Lebanon exporting their gas if the government would have had the sense to co-operate with Israel and develop its own gas fields.
17 September 2016, 20:03
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if israel wasn't a murderous land-stealing, ethnic-cleansing colonial project we might consider cooperation. in the mean time dont flaunt your theft and extortion too loud, israel making palestinians pay for their own natural resources is not something to be proud of.
ps: their are humongous natural gas reserves right off the coast of gaza, but israel bullied every oil & gas company into not signing exploitation deals with palestinians.
17 September 2016, 18:47
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"Were the dozen of UN schools/shelters (which coordinates were given) that were bombed"
Even the UN admitted that in the cellars of these schools were hoarded hundreds of rockets and from these school yards rockets were shot at Israel.
Please also remember one simple fact - if Hamas wouldn't have shot rockets into the Israeli town of Sderot and the settlements along the Gaza border, then Israel would not have had to RETALIATE. Israel is lucky that it has prepared sheltered for its population whereas Hamas couldn't care less about them, and uses their casualties for propaganda purposes.
17 September 2016, 20:28
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"Even the UN admitted that in the cellars of these schools were hoarded hundreds of rockets and from these school yards rockets were shot at Israel"
purely and simply an OUTRIGHT LIE. the UN didnt say that, to the contrary, they denounced israel targeting those sites as a war crime.
17 September 2016, 20:30
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their hypocrisy is limitless, they really think they're the salt of the earth, the "most moral" invaders and ethnic cleansers in the world.
