Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah Wednesday acknowledged for first time that his Lebanese guerrilla group has more than 12,000 rockets and that all of northern Israel is within reach.

“All of the north of occupied Palestine, its settlements, airports, seaports, fields, factories and farms is under the feet and hands of the Islamic resistance,” Nasrallah said.

Nasrallah also said that Hezbollah, under mounting international pressure to disarm, would fight anyone who tried to take away its weapons.

“Any hand that reaches out to our weapons is an Israeli hand that will be cut off,” Nasrallah told supporters on the fifth anniversary of Israel’s witdhrawal from southern Lebanon.

“If anyone, anyone, thinks of disarming the resistance we will fight them like the martyrs of Kerbala,” he said, referring to a battle in Islamic history central to Shi’ites.
Full: haaretzdaily.com

You sure that wasn’t just last week?

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