IAF targeting Hezbollah’s long-range missile arsenal, built up over 18 years – analyst

The IAF is currently targeting Hezbollah’s long-range missiles — an arsenal built up over the past 18 years, most of which is located in Lebanon’s Beqaa, veteran Middle East analyst Ehud Ya’ari says on Channel 12. “The air force won’t be able to destroy every missile,” he says, but the goal is to broadly neutralize that threat.

He says this presents Hezbollah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah — and his Iranian backers — with a dilemma of how to respond, and says there are voices in Iran that are opposing a major Hezbollah response and even urging that Hezbollah stop firing at Israel.

Says Ya’ari: “Nasrallah has to decide whether to fire on Tel Aviv, when he knows that the [Israeli] reply will be [to target] Beirut, and certainly the Dahieh neighborhood” — Hezbollah’s stronghold.