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Post by shalom on Oct 18, 2021 16:54:37 GMT -5
IDF official: Israel expects Hezbollah to fire 2,000 rockets a day in wartime
Home Front Command chief Uri Gordin says the 2006 war with Lebanon was a ‘wake-up call’ for the civil defense division By AFP and TOI STAFF 17 October 2021, 11:54 pm During the 11-day May conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian terror groups fired around 4,400 projectiles towards the Jewish state. The Iron Dome air defense system intercepted around 90 percent of the rockets headed for populated areas, while just under 300 hit inhabited districts. Cities like Tel Aviv and Ashdod experienced the “highest number of fire towards them in the history of Israel,” said Uri Gordin, chief of the army’s Home Front Command. “We saw a pace of more than 400 rockets fired towards Israel on a daily basis.” Gordin said that in the case of a future “conflict or a war with Hezbollah, we expect more than five times the number of rockets fired every day from Lebanon to Israel.” “Basically, we are looking at between 1,500 and 2,500 rockets fired daily towards Israel,” he told AFP. Continued at link
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