PM: Hezbollah only has dozens of precision missiles, not thousands

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claims that Hezbollah currently has only several dozens of precision-guided missiles, with Israeli security forces — including the Mossad spying agency — having denied the Lebanese terror group thousands of such projectiles.

“Hezbollah has two tools [of attack],” Netanyahu says at an award ceremony for exceptional Mossad members at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. “One tool is tunnels, and we are depriving them of that.

“The second tool is the missile weapon,” he adds, saying that while normal rockets are “statistical weapons” — meaning that if many are launched, statistically some are bound to hit their target — Hezbollah is “interested in precision weapons. That dramatically changes the balance of power.”

“According to Hezbollah’s plan they should’ve been equipped today with thousands of missiles, but at this moment they have several dozens. The reason for that — among others — are sitting in this room,” the premier tells the Mossad members.

“It is a joint effort by Mossad, the IDF, and our entire defense mechanism. We are completely and impressively depriving them of that weapon as well,” he boasts.