| Hezbollah warns of deadly strike on Israel if attacked |
BEIRUT Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned on Friday that Hezbollah would make lives of Israelis “a living hell” if it is attacked.
“There are targets in occupied Palestine (Israel) which could be targeted by a small number of missiles,” Nasrallah said.
“If we are forced to use them to protect our people and our country, we will not hesitate to do so... and that will turn the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists into a living hell,” he said in a speech marking Al Quds (Jerusalem) Day.
Nasrallah warned of “tens of thousands of deaths, and not just 300 to 500 dead,” adding that Hezbollah had fixed its targets.
In case of any Israeli attack on Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, “the response will be enormous,” he warned. Any such action would present the Islamic republic with “the opportunity is has been dreaming of” since it was founded in 1979.
Last month, an Israeli general warned that Hezbollah would pay dearly if it fired rockets at the Jewish state.
“If we get to another war, Israel will hit Hezbollah decisively, quickly, as fast as we can in order to stop the fire from Lebanon to Israel,” commander of the country’s northern division, Brigadier General Herzi Halevi, said at a briefing.
He also said that towns in southern Lebanon used as launching bases for Hezbollah rocket attacks would be “destroyed.”
He said he would not name the targets and did not say whether the rockets were newly acquired weapons
Nasrallah said his group could strike a limited number of targets in Israel which if hit would lead to mass casualties – a possible reference to Israeli nuclear facilities, though he said he did not spell out what he meant.
Agence France-Presse
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