Hezbollah warns Israel over future attack threats

28/07/2009| IslamWeb

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against attack threats.

Hezbollah fought against Israel three years ago in a 34-day war after the group captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid. Some 1,200 civilians in Lebanon were killed and 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers, were killed.

Israel attacked Lebanon in a 34-day war in the summer of 2006 that killed around 1,200 people.

Israeli bombing also hit bridges, roads, airport runways, ports, factories, power and water networks, and military installations, and the eastern Bekaa Valley.

Hezbollah's daily rocket barrages hit some Israeli targets, but Tel Aviv was not hit by rocket attacks.

"The equations that used to apply have now changed. Now it is 'the southern suburbs for Tel Aviv' and not 'Beirut for Tel Aviv'," al-Akhbar newspaper on Monday quoted Nasrallah as telling a group of Lebanese emigrants.

"I tell you, and this is not muscle-flexing, the Israeli army will be destroyed in any future war. And any force from the enemy's army that steps on Lebanese land, will be destroyed, and that is a fact."

Lebanon has also arrested recently more than 50 people, including three Lebanese army colonels, for spying for Israel.

Lebanon has described the arrests as a major blow to Israel's intelligence gathering and has formally complained to the U.N. Security Council about its findings.

Nasrallah rarely appears in public and makes statements from a secret place because of Israeli assassination threats.

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A video grab shows Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah addressing his supporters during a rally marking Resistance and Liberation Day in Beirut May 25, 2009.

Agencies