Hezbollah prepares for a summer war with Israel

The reports keep coming, and from different sources; Hezbollah is gearing up for war against the State of Israel.

In a report released by the Begin Center for Strategic Studies in January, former Israeli National Security Adviser Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror outlined the threats to the Jewish State from non-state entities. Amidror concluded that the most serious existential threat by non-state entities is the terrorist group Hezbollah with 150,000 missiles. To put that arsenal into perspective, before last summer’s Operation Protective Edge it was estimated that Hamas had 10,000 missiles. According to the general, Hezbollah has a “rare and substantial firepower apparently even exceeded the firepower possessed by most of the European states combined.” 

It’s feared that Hezbollah, empowered by the Iranian negotiations against an impotent President Obama, was planning to use those missiles against Israel.

Variations of this story have been bouncing around for the last few weeks. There were major pieces in the New York Times and Associated Press, where journalists were given the opportunity to look at IDF aerial photography showing that Hezbollah has moved the vast majority of its military infrastructure into Shiite villages in lower Lebanon, embedding it across hundreds of villages and probably thousands of homes, setting up Human Shields.

The Iran-backed terror group has the ability to saturation bomb Israeli civilians with 1,500 projectiles a day, every day, for at least 100 days. They will try to bring down Tel Aviv’s skyscrapers with ballistic missiles. They will try to fly drones into Israel’s nuclear reactor. They will try to detonate Israel’s offshore energy infrastructure. They will try to destroy Israeli military and civilian runways. And — mainly but not exclusively through their tunnels — they will try to overrun Israeli towns and drag away women and children as hostages. In other words, along with damage to its infrastructure, Israeli casualties would range in the thousands to tens of thousands.