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Zenger
Politics
Yaakov Lappin

Hezbollah’s Growing Arsenal Raises Concerns Of Israeli Preemptive Strike

This picture taken during a media tour in Israel's northern town of Metula shows a room, reported to be a cross-border tunnel dug by the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in 2018, near the border wall with Lebanon on August 2, 2023. Hezbollah continues to provoke Israel on the Lebanese-Israeli border while building up a massive arsenal of some 200,000 rockets, mortar rounds, missiles, and drones deeper within Lebanon with support from Iran. JALAA MAREY/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Hezbollah’s provocations on the Lebanese–Israeli border continue, while deeper within Lebanon, the Iranian-backed terror army continues to amass a monstrous arsenal of some 200,000 rockets, mortar shells, missiles and drones. Hundreds of these threats are capable of targeting strategic sites within Israel.

This situation raises the question of whether Israel needs to consider a preventive strike and the dilemma that such a strike would pose to military and political decision-makers.

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