[Ha'aretz] Gideon Alon - The head of IDF Military Intelligence, Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin, told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Thursday, "The Lebanese army has deployed alongside Hizballah in southern Lebanon, but is not replacing it.... Hizballah does not intend to leave southern Lebanon and to disarm itself. At most, it will be willing to stash away its arms." "Syria and Hizballah were surprised by the determined stand made by the Israeli homefront during the course of the war," Yadlin said. "They expected Israel to sustain more casualties after they fired close to 4,000 missiles and expected greater chaos in Israeli society." Yadlin noted that with the exception of the long-range Iranian Zelzal missiles, most Katyushas fired by Hizballah at Israel were taken from the Syrian arsenal rather than from Iran.
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