Hezbollah received $157M in weapons in 2024, mostly from 1 nation, report says
A new report details thousands of Katyusha rockets, Fajr rockets, Kornet missiles and air defense systems sent to the group
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hezbollah terrorists in Yemen received $157M worth of weapons in 2024, most of it given freely by Iran, according to a new report from the Israeli nonprofit Center for Research of Terror Financing.
The report, titled Hezbollah Financial Statements, relied on open-source data as well as known valuations of Hezbollah's military assets, according to the Jerusalem Post.
The report found that Hezbollah spent just $28 million on procuring weapons, and those were limited to small arms, ammunition, drone components, dual-use equipment, and equipment obtained through its international procurement networks.
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Hezbollah weapons cache located near a UNIFIL post by IDF troops in southern Lebanon in 2024. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)
Meanwhile, CENTEF Iran provided roughly $129 million worth of weapons as an in-kind grant, including rockets, missiles, drones, ATGMs, air-defense systems, ammunition, launchers, naval equipment, and IED-related assets.
The CENTEF analysis found that Hezbollah acquired 4,000 short-range Katyusha rockets, 400 Falaq-1 and 2 rockets, and 120 Burkan rockets in 2024. The short range rockets are estimated to cost $300 per unit, while the Burkan rockets are estimated to cost $400.
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A Hezbollah drone seized by the IDF. (IDF)
The report also detailed more sophisticated weaponry obtained by Hezbollah, including Iran’s Fajr series and Syrian-origin heavy rockets. The Fajr-3 is a 240mm artillery rocket armed with a 45-kilogram warhead, while the Fajr-5 is a 333mm rocket with a GPS-guided Fajr-5C variant, according to the Post.
The rockets are estimated to cost $2,000 to $10,000, and CENTEF estimates Hezbollah obtained 600 of them in 2024.
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Anti-tank guided missiles make up a major portion of Hezbollah's arsenal. The research found that The Russian-made Kornet and Iran's reverse-engineered Dehlavieh make up the bulk of Hezbollah's ATGMs, with the former costing approximately $26,000 per round and the latter costing an estimated $12,000 to $15,000, according to the Post.
Hezbollah has expended vast measures of its arsenal in its attacks against Israel over the past year, and Israeli forces have decimated the group's leadership ranks.
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PK machine guns used by Hezbollah in Lebanon and seized by the IDF. (IDF)
IDF Lt. Col. (Res.) Sarit Zehavi, the founder and president of the Israel-based Alma Research and Education Center told Fox News Digital earlier this month that IDF has decimated 90% of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile arsenal.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"Today Hezbollah is holding between 10,000 to 15,000 rockets, which is much less than what it used to have. Most of the array of sophisticated missiles, accurate missiles and long-range missiles was either eliminated or neutralized," Zehavi said.
Fox News' Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.