Israel Faces Threat From 150,000 Rockets

Report: Israel faces threat from 150,000 rockets

An estimated 150,000 rockets threaten Israel.

Yaakov Lappin, a military and strategic affairs correspondent, reported at the Investigation Project on Terror that Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah made the boast on Al-Manar television.Lappin explained the Lebanese Hezbollah is “the world’s most heavily armed non-state actor, and its surface-to-surface firepower arsenal – estimated at around 150,000 projectiles – is larger” than the arsenal of most state armies.

Nasrallah told the television station Hezbollah has improved its “offensive capabilities.”

“Displaying a map, he threatened strikes on strategic Israeli targets including Ben Gurion International Airport, the Dimona nuclear facility, a power plant in Hadera, Ashdod sea port, and ammonia tanks in the city of Haifa,” Lappin wrote.

The Israel Defense Forces headquarters in Tel Aviv also is a potential target.

The report explained Hezbollah has built its arsenal through “smuggling projectiles into 200 southern Lebanese villages, as well as launch sites in the Bekaa Valley in east Lebanon.”