Military ready to hit targets inside Iran, kill 300 Hezbollah fighters every 24 hours: Israeli minister

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Israel stands ready to take out 3,000 Lebanese targets every day or 300 Hezbollah fighters every 24 hours in the next conflict.

Plans are also taking shape to hit numerous targets inside Iran to hurt its ability to develop a nuclear bomb, a Fox News report quoted Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz as saying.

Gantz also said that his country is prepared to “stand independently” to defend itself. “If the world stops them before, it’s very much good.

But if not, we must stand independently and we must defend ourselves by ourselves,” Gantz said in his first sit-down interview with the American outlet.

Gantz told Fox News that the Israeli military is updating plans to strike Iranian nuclear sites and is prepared to act independently.

The latest development came amid increasing regional tension over Iranian proxy actions and violations of the 2015 nuclear deal.

Fox News quoting intelligence assessments reveals that Iran will likely target Israel using proxies in Syria and Lebanon during 2021.

Gantz said the Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has hundreds of thousands of rockets.

The minister also revealed a classified map of targets showing many rockets among civilian areas along the Israeli border. “This is a target map.

Each one of them has been checked legally, operationally, intelligence-wise, and we are ready to fight,” Gantz added. The annual Israel Defense Forces intelligence briefing indicated that Israel is preparing for several days of fighting with Hezbollah.

Local media reports said, “3,000 Lebanese targets would be hit every day, during the next conflict to kill 300 Hezbollah fighters every 24 hours.” Since the start of 2020, Israel hit more than 500 Iranian-linked sites in Syria with airstrikes, according to the Israeli Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi.

Last week, US President Biden ordered an additional airstrike in Syria after numerous rocket attacks in Iraq. “The American policy should be American policy, and Israeli policy should stay Israeli policy,” Gantz said.

Picture Caption: Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz shares a classified map of locations of missiles controlled by he Iranian-backed Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. (Courtesy of Fox News)