At a glance: An assessment of Hezbollah's military capability

Israel shelled Lebanon for a sixth day yesterday in a bid to crush Hezbollah after the group killed eight of its soldiers and abducted two others in a border raid.

Hezbollah has been firing missiles into Israel.

Following is an assessment of Hezbollah's military capability before Israel's offensive, according to Nicholas Blanford, a Beirut-based analyst for Jane's Defence Weekly, as well as Lebanese and Israeli security sources:

Fighters

600 full-time fighters and another 3,000-4,500 veterans available for mobilisation.

Hezbollah fighters undergo training sponsored by Iran, use a range of infantry small arms, and carry out roadside and suicide bomb attacks. 15,000-30,000 reservists in volunteer militias.

Rockets and missiles

13,000 Katyusha rockets. The 107mm variant has a range of 11 km, the 122mm variant a range of 20km.

Iranian-made Fajr-3 rockets, with a range of 45km, and the Fajr-5 variant with a range of around 70km.

Footage broadcast by Hezbollah suggests it manufactured its own version of the latter, renaming it Raad-1. Israel puts the number of these at around 100.

Israel said Hezbollah fired a Syrian-supplied 220mm rocket, with a 90kg warhead at its port city of Haifa on Sunday that killed eight people.

Hezbollah said it had fired a salvo of Raad-2 and Raad-3 rockets, but did not immediately provide further details.

Foreign analysts believe Iran has secretly deployed Zelzal-2 ballistic missiles with Hezbollah. Believed capable of carrying a 600kg warhead, possibly with chemical or biological agents, to a maximum range of 200km. That would put all major Israeli cities in range.

Hezbollah fired an Iranian-supplied C-802 missile at an Israeli navy vessel off Beirut last week, killing four sailors.

Command structure

Hezbollah has headquarters in the Shiite districts of Beirut and southern Lebanon, training camps in the Bekaa Valley, and liaison offices in Syria and Iran.