BEIRUT (Dispatches) – The occupying regime of Israel does not want war with Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a senior Zionist military official has told AFP, adding the regime expects to face about 2,000 rockets a day from the resistance movement if conflict breaks out.
In May this year, the Zionist military fought an 11-day war against Palestinian resistance groups in the Gaza Strip, which fired around 4,400 projectiles towards the occupying regime.
The rate of fire surpassed that seen in Israel’s 2006 war against Hezbollah, when a similar number of rockets were launched from Lebanon -- but over the course of around a month -- the Zionist army said.
In May, 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.”
He said that in the case of “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 between 1,500 and 2,500 rockets fired daily towards Israel,” he told AFP.
Set up in 1992 after the first Persian Gulf War, Gordin’s home front command is in charge of readying the occupying entity for any threat, conflict or disaster.
The unit was criticized for its response to the 2006 war with Hezbollah, which martyred more than 1,200 Lebanese, mostly civilians, and left 160 Zionists dead, the majority of them soldiers.
That war was a “wake-up call” for the home front command, Gordin said, adding that it had since beefed up its liaison units, which are now active across 250 Israeli municipalities to provide assistance in case of any attack.

The command uses computer projections to predict a rocket’s trajectory after it has been launched, and advises the public, within a specific range, to head to bomb shelters.
“We are preparing for all options and scenarios, including military capabilities,” AFP quoted an unnamed Israeli security source as saying.