Israel Estimates

From the AFP:

"Israel readies for 1,500 rockets a day in next war"

Israel's army estimates that thousands of rockets could slam into the Jewish state in any future conflagration, military sources said Friday ahead of a nationwide civil defence drill. "Total war on several fronts, destruction of essential equipment and infrastructure and heavy rocket bombardment" all form part of the scenario for the exercise, which runs from Sunday until September 21, the army said. The drill is based on projections of the army's Home Front Command, which estimates 1,500 rockets crashing into the country each day, military sources said in a briefing to Israeli reporters, local media reported. The projectiles could be launched simultaneously by Lebanon's Shiite militia Hezbollah across Israel's northern border and to a far lesser extent from Hamas-ruled Gaza in the south. Hamas is said to have been left seriously weakened after a 2014 Gaza war against Israel, but it still holds thousands of rockets, according to a military official. Hezbollah has at least 100,000 and probably more, said the official, speaking on condition of anonymity. Only around one in 100 rockets is likely to hit a building, military sources say, with the rest falling on open ground or being intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile defence system. They say 95 percent of rockets fired will likely carry a light payload and have a range of less than 40 kilometres (25 miles), but Hezbollah can hit densely-populated central Israel with dozens of rockets each day. The Home Front Command, tasked with leading and coordinating civil defence, regularly publishes maps showing the maximum time, by location, that Israelis have to take shelter after air raid sirens sound. In Tel Aviv, Israel's seaside commercial and leisure capital, the time to scramble to safety has been reassessed from 90 seconds at present to 60 in the next conflict. After a 2006 war with Hezbollah, an official inquiry criticised authorities for lack of preparedness and organisation in civil defence procedures. During that conflict, the Shiite militia rained about 4,000 rockets on Israel and sent a million civilians into shelters, many of them dilapidated and cramped. The 34 days of fighting took the lives of more than 1,200 on the Lebanese side, mostly civilians, and 160 Israelis, almost all soldiers.

^ To anyone not living in Israel it seems unthinkable to continue living your normal life when the government estimates 1,500 rockets a day being launched against you. The Israelis have been made into a strong people who have not only survived, but thrived through numerous wars and attacks over the past 60+  years. No one can say they haven't  given their best every time they are attacked from the ground or the air. You would think their enemies would have learned by now (60+ years) that Israel and the Israeli people aren't going away and that no amount of invasions, missiles or suicide bombers will destroy them. I doubt that any country in the world has had to constantly prove themselves over and over again as Israel has and yet they continue to do so and still have an open, democratic society that many countries could only dream about having. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-readies-1-500-rockets-day-next-war-183034885.html