Syria and Lebanon....

Hezbollah now has an arsenal of thousands of rockets...

Israel is becoming increasingly concerned with the transfer of weapons from Syria to Hezbollah. Head of the Military Intelligence's (MI) research department Brig.-Gen. Yossi Baidatz said on Tuesday, "Weapons are transferred to Hezbollah on a regular basis and this transfer is organized by the Syrian and Iranian regimes. Therefore, it should not be called smuggling of arms to Lebanon – it is organized and official transfer."

He claimed that "the transfer of long-range missiles that was recently published is only the tip of the iceberg."

Baidatz on Tuesday briefed the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on the current state of affairs and stressed that "today, Hezbollah has an arsenal of thousands of rockets of all types and ranges, including long-range solid-fuel rockets and more precise rockets."

He added, "The long-range missiles in Hezbollah's possession enable them to fix their launch areas deep inside Lebanon, and they cover longer, larger ranges than what we have come across in the past. Hezbollah of 2006 is different from Hezbollah of 2010 in terms its military capabilities, which have developed significantly.