Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Friday that Israel is “scared” of another war with his Lebanese terror group, which he claimed the Israeli military is unprepared for.
In a televised speech, Nasrallah pointed to the US military’s deployment this week of the advanced THAAD missile defense system in Israel for joint exercises as proof of what he said was Israeli insecurity over the country’s ability to counter Hezbollah rocket fire in a future conflict.
“Israel is scared of a new war,” Nasrallah told supporters.“Everyday you hear that Israel is not prepared for war in one way or another and this week you saw Israel began using the American THAAD system.
They don’t even trust the missile defense systems they developed themselves,” he added, according to Israel’s Channel 13.
Hezbollah is believed to posses between 100,000 and 150,000 rockets and Israel has warned it is working to develop precision missiles with Iranian assistance. While the IDF and the Defense Ministry have invested significant resources in aerial defense, army officers have said that these anti-missile systems will not be able to stop all projectiles.
Nasrallah’s remarks echoed other recent comments he has made on the Israeli military’s preparedness for war and come just months after Israel wrapped up an operation to find and destroy cross border attack tunnels from Lebanon it says were to be used by Hezbollah for an opening salvo in a future war.
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