Hezbollah Can Launch 3,000 Rockets a Day Into Israel

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Hezbollah Can Launch 3,000 Rockets a Day Into Israel

Hassan Nasrallah boasts that his organization has stockpiled some 30,000 to 80,000 rockets since last summer’s war.

Despite fighting a war last summer with Israel, Hezbollah is doing just fine, thank you. Hassan Nasrallah, leader of the Hezbollah terrorist organization based in Lebanon, boasted that his organization has stockpiled some 30,000 to 80,000 rockets. Furthermore, he said that Hezbollah could launch “3,000 rockets daily in a war in July,” Ynet News reports.

If this is true, a literal hail of 125 rockets an hour could cross the border between Israel and Lebanon for almost an entire month. It represents a rocket arsenal nearly 10 times larger than the one Hezbollah had last year when it started a war against the Jewish state.

The fact that Hezbollah has been rearming so rapidly ever since the war’s conclusion must be partially credited to the ineptitude of United Nations peacekeepers. The UN, rather than curbing Hezbollah’s arms build-up, has restricted itself to merely expressing “concern” over the situation.

That Nasrallah put a date on this potential attack—July of this year—is especially concerning. Hezbollah, which fought the Israel Defense Forces to an embarrassing standstill almost a year ago, says on its website that it is “stronger today than before and can fight better than last year.” A war this summer against Israel could be devastating, and it looks like that’s exactly what Nasrallah has in mind.

Israel, by stark contrast, has had anything but phenomenal success since last summer’s war. Its government has been on shaky ground since the war, and its military has been struggling to rebuild its credibility following investigations into the conduct of the war that led to the resignation of the army’s chief of staff and the firing of several generals.

While Israel second-guesses itself, Hezbollah prepares itself for another war. A cache of multiple thousands of munitions in the hands of a group like Hezbollah virtually guarantees a war, and Israel could be staring at the wrong end of 80,000 rockets sooner rather than later.