IDF officials have told cabinet ministers that should Israel undergo a<br />coordinated missile attack, there would be less than 300 Israeli<br />casualties. The number was mentioned by IDF officials during a<br />discussion with Israel's security-diplomatic cabinet, and is far lower<br />than the number mentioned previously by Defense Minister Ehud Barak,<br />who reportedly said 500 Israelis would die in such an attack. A senior<br />official in the IAF added that in the event of a coordinated missile<br />attack on Israel's home front, missiles and rockets would be fired at<br />Israel by the Syrian army, Hezbollah in Lebanon, terror organizations<br />in Gaza, and most probably by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. The<br />IAF believes that for three weeks, thousands of missiles and rockets<br />would land in Israel, and the number of people dead would reach 300,<br />as well as hundreds of people wounded and severe damage to property<br />and infrastructure.
