
(Ynet) — Damascus has accelerated its supply of weapons to Hezbollah militants in Lebanon, Ynet learned Saturday.
Latest weapon deliveries to the Lebanon-based militant group include, according to The Australian, advanced Scud D surface-to-surface missiles, which can carry a one-ton warhead and have a range of 700km — placing all of Israel, Jordan and a large part of Turkey within Hezbollah’s range and therefore at risk.
According to intelligence sources in the West and the Middle East, Syria’s arms shipments to the Shiite organization have remained steady despite the unrest sweeping across the country, and they include advanced ballistic missiles.
The scale of arms shipments is said to be so great that Hezbollah “doesn’t know where to put it all.” Another source said that the shipments were simply contingency measures and that “We can send it all back when things calm down in Syria.”
Syria is said to be employing the help of experts from Iran and North Korea to press ahead with its development of sophisticated missiles at a secret site, believed to be built into Jabal Taqsis, a mountain near the opposition stronghold of Hama.
Sources close to Hezbollah said that the flow of weapons entering the Bekaa Valley from Syria had accelerated since March, when protests erupted against the Assad regime.
