Hezbollah threatens to attack Israel with missiles

By Areeb Hasni Aug 18th, 2012 ( 2 Comments )

Beirut: Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned Friday that his Lebanese Shiite militia would make lives of Israelis “a living hell” if it is attacked.

In a speech marking Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Day, the Hezbollah leader threatened to kill tens of thousands of Israelis by striking specific targets in Israel with what it described as precision-guided rockets.

“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.

Nasrallah warned of “tens of thousands of deaths, and not just 300 to 500 dead,” adding that Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and Syria, had fixed its targets.

“Hitting these targets with a small number of rockets will turn … the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists to real hell, and we can talk about tens of thousands of dead,” Nasrallah said.

In case of any Israeli attack on Iran over its controversial nuclear program, “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.

Israel and Lebanon are officially in a state of war, and the Jewish state fought a devastating war with Hezbollah in the summer of 2006.