Israel News Update

Intel on Hizbullah declassified this week makes clear: Israel can still destroy the group’s missiles should another war break out.

Four years ago, on the eve of the Second Lebanon War, the IDF had just a few hundred designated Hizbullah targets throughout Lebanon. About 90 of them were longrange missiles that had been stored in the homes of top Hizbullah operatives and these were destroyed by the air force within 36 minutes on the first night of the war.

While by the end of the war, the air force had bombed close to 8,000 targets, the fact that it knew about only a few hundred before the war partially led to the failure to stop the rocket fire and fatally hurt the guerrilla group.

On Wednesday, top IDF officers revealed that the air force today has thousands of designated targets it can bomb if war were to break out.

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