From Nasdaq:
JERUSALEM (AFP)--Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak told parliament Monday that the Shiite militant group Hezbollah is three times stronger now than it was during the 2006 Lebanon war.
"The firepower of Hezbollah has grown threefold since the second Lebanon War," he told lawmakers.
"It has missiles that can reach the towns of Ashkelon, Beersheba and Dimona ( in southern Israel more than 200 kilometers from the Lebanese border). Today Hezbollah has 42,000 missiles."
Hezbollah fired nearly 4,000 rockets at communities across northern Israel during the 34-day war in the summer of 2006, killing more than 40 civilians and sending another million fleeing south.
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