Israel: Next War with Hizbullah Will Be Ten Times Fiercer than 2006 Conflict
Israel expected on Friday that the next war with Hizbullah will be completely different than the July 2006 conflict.
Israel Defense Forces Home Front Command Chief Major General Eyal Eisenberg warned that the next war with the party will be ten times fiercer than the 2006 one.
He also predicted than Israel will be bombarded with ten times more rockets on a daily basis by Hizbullah than the rate it was targeted with seven years ago.
He noted that prior to 2006, Hizbullah was capable of launching 500 rockets at Gush Dan in Israel, but it failed to do so because the Israeli air force destroyed Iran's Fajr rockets within the first few days of the war.
Should a war erupt today, continued Eisenberg, he said that Gush Dan would be the target of some 5,000 Hizbullah rockets.
The first few days of the next conflict will be very difficult and we are prepared for a scenario that witnesses the launching of 2,000 rockets at a daily basis, he added.
Israel is not seeking such a war as it will be futile for it and the other side, he remarked.
Israel knows how to incur greater damage against its enemies than they do against it because of its air force's possession of more destructive and accurate weapons, Eisenberg explained.
Both sides will be harmed from the conflict, but Israel is more capable of swiftly recovering form it, he stressed.
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