Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Monday that the Lebanese Hezbollah has stored more rockets today than it did before its war with Israel last summer, local daily Ha'aretz reported on its website.
Barak made the remarks during a meeting of the Knesset ( parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
Ha'aretz quoted its source who was present at the meeting as saying that Barak was referring to both long-range and short-range rockets, adding that the rockets are deployed in area north of the Litani River.
On July 12, 2006, Hezbollah's seizure of two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid triggered the 34-day war with Israel, which had left more than 1,200 Lebanese and about 157 Israelis killed.
During the war, the Hezbollah guerilla fired thousands of Katyusha rockets into northern Israeli communities.
Several days before the conflict ended, Israel launched massive ground incursions into southern Lebanon and reached the Litani River, to prevent Hezbollah from launching rockets, which lasted until the last day of the war.
The conflict finally reached a ceasefire on Aug. 14, 2006, thanking to the UN resolution 1701.
Source: Xinhua
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