Hezbollah’s barrage of missiles catches Israel off-guard

We know Hezbollah backed down in 2024 to preserve its existing missile stocks, which contain Scuds they were given by Assad, and Iranian Fateh 110 short-range ballistic missiles,” he said. “It is hard to secretly obtain ballistic missiles because they need to be stored with temperature control, undergo maintenance, usually at centralised military bases. Moving Scuds is not easy, particularly if Israel was watching the Lebanese-Syrian border crossing.” He added: “It is plausible that immediately after the fall of Assad, Syrian army officers traded missiles with Hezbollah for a chance to escape to Lebanon.”