Israel admits Hezbollah can hit Tel Aviv
Israel will be forced to evacuate the entire population of Tel Aviv if it is hit by missiles, including those from Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah, the commander in charge of Israel's central region has said.
Colonel Adam Zusman, chief of the Home Front Command in Israel's Gush Dan region, which encompasses the city of Tel Aviv and its environs, said an attack on the center of the country would force massive evacuations.
"In case of a missile attack on the center of Israel, especially unconventional, the population from Tel Aviv and other cities will be evacuated and relocated in other areas of the country," Zusman told AFP in an interview.
"Massive evacuations will take place in case of unconventional attacks and if buildings are destroyed by a missile."
When Israel bombed Lebanon in 2006, retaliatory Hezbollah missiles were able to hit targets in northern Israel but did not effect the city of Tel Aviv.
But Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has recently boasted about the group's increased military capacity, saying that targets across Israel were within the resistance movement's range.
“Today, we are capable of not only striking Tel Aviv as an area, but also capable of striking specific targets in Tel Aviv and any place in occupied Palestine,” he said last month.
Zusman appeared to admit Nasrallah's claims were accurate, saying that the number of casualties across the country would be high.
"We estimate that in case of war, hundreds of missiles will hit Tel Aviv and its nearby cities. As a result of these attacks, there will be hundreds of Israeli casualties.
"In the next war, nobody will be able to drink a coffee in Dizengoff," he said, referring to a popular street in downtown Tel Aviv.
"Israeli civilians will have to face the threat. Today, every civilian is threatened in Israel."
(Al-Akhbar, AFP)
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This language is a sign of weakness. Israel has never made it clear that Lebanon can cease to exist if Hezbollah targets Israeli cities and I believe it must be made clear. No second guessing.
Considering Hezbollah is indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians and wants to simply kill of the Jews Israel should employ extreme violence and pragmatic approach against both Hezbollah and Lebanese civilians. The best way is to employ Roman tactics of pacare ( pacification) and vestatio (devastation) which includes killing off or driving away population, destroying crops and infrastructure to make survival of the rest impossible in those areas. Also, driving away all Lebanese population and annexation of depopulated areas would be a good thing to do to this permanent cancer situation. In short make a desert and call it peace.
Ah, the typical nationalist America - who contends that Hassan Nasrallah is a radical Islamist of sorts. I wonder how tight that bloody US flag is wrapped around your brain for you to actually take the time to write out such an idiotic premise - especially seeing that he is called a non-Muslim by true radicals, since he advocates for one state in Palestine, shared by Muslims, Christians and Jews (et al.) (source: recent interview with Assange)
The illegal state of Israel is nothing more than a pariah state. A welfare state which sucks the life out of the US taxpayers in order for this perverse occupying entity to expand settlements, abuse Africans, open up more checkpoints and segregated roads for Palestinians and deny them right to trial, to justice, to life (source: see for example the Palestinian football player currently on day 87 (+) of his hunger-strike in an Israeli prison, where he has been for three years without being charged with a single crime, not even sent to trial) - and of course for all of the lovely weaponry (including white phosphorous).
So please, spare us this idiotic Nazi allusion, it doesn't work dear. It is as flimsy as Israel is. If Israel were to attack Lebanon again I cannot wait to hear, once more, from Hassan Nasrallah: 'la Haifa w ba3d, ba3d Haifa!' as watch their 'sophisticated' military weaponry collapse and turn over. Also, please search "crying Israeli soldiers" for more on these brave men of Israel!
Israel, the welfare state that is as flimsy in battle as a spiders-web, will not last. The occupation of Palestine (and the Sheb3a farms, Golan) will end and you and many other America nationalists who happily bray in agreement with Israeli policies of slaughter and destruction will be left with nothing more than an empty shell of a country - which seems to be able to fund, in the millions, weaponry for a despicable apartheid regime vs. provide for local citizens.
Also, to end this, I must say that your statement in reference to the Jews is telling. This is the hallmark argument of Zionists, who attempt to make it seem as though all Jews support Israel. This is not the case. Examples? Illan Pappe, Max Ajl, Max Blumenthal et al. Not to mention the great number of Jewish groups who are against the Israeli apartheid state, and who call for a one state solution.
You will become as the supporters of the apartheid regime in South Africa: outcasts who will be spat upon as supporters of brutal crimes against humanity. Your time is coming and I pray those beloved Zionist settlers you seem to fawn over so much will leave you a place in their shelters in Haifa.
Funny how Hizballah only aims at soldiers while the israeli army has a reputation of killing children, like when they hit an orphanage and a kids hospital... israel is been talking about unhappened holocaust and convincing the universe that they are victimes while they've been the criminals all this time so stop acting smart without know what's going on and the soldier in the picture is not a hizballah soldier hizballah soldiers use m16s
Nasrallah is pushing the world into WW III. Eventually, the Israelis will get tired of being the whipping boy for radical Islam and strike back in ways Nasrallah never imagined. The Jews already had a taste of Adolph Hitler.
They are not going to take much more from Adolph Nasrallah.
Or when they are defeated they will settle down in America and take over your land like what they did to the Palestinians.
Everyone knows America is their puppet anyway.
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