BEIRUT: Israel’s Iron Dome Defense System would not be able to cope with Hezbollah’s precision rockets in any future war, an officer in the Israeli army has said, while warning that the next conflict with the resistance group would be “very violent.”
In a report broadcast by Israel’s Channel 2, Col. Dan Goldfus said that Israelis needed to know that a war with Hezbollah would be “a whole different story,” than the recent war Israel waged on Gaza.
“We will need to move quickly and flexibly,” he said.
The report said that Israel estimated that Hezbollah had about 100,000 rockets, with most of them hidden in south Lebanon but with long-range missiles in Beirut capable of carrying large warheads of up to 1 ton.
The missiles in Beirut are equipped with precision guidance systems and can reach all of Israel, which would make it difficult for the Iron Dome missile defense system to deal with them as successfully as the less sophisticated rockets used by Hamas during the Gaza war.
The report also spoke of repeated concerns that Hezbollah had dug tunnels along the border with Israel, saying residents had reported noise under their houses.
Goldfus did not rule out the possibility of Hezbollah digging tunnels, saying that the Israeli army was concerned over the matter in light of recent tunnels unearthed and later destroyed by Israel in Gaza.
In any future war, Goldfus said: “We will have to use considerable force” to quickly prevail over the Hezbollah, “to act more decisively, more drastically." - with Anadolu
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