Hezbollah is stronger than ever despite the Western sanctions imposed on it, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised interview with Al-Manar television held on July 12, marking the 13th anniversary of the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
He further warned that all of Israel was within range of the group's missiles and threatened it would "almost vanish" in case a new conflict erupts between the two.
"Once we said that we could strike targets south of Haifa. Today, we can say that if Israel has sites south of Eilat, then we can also hit them. All of Israel is under the range of our missiles," he said.
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Hezbollah's current military capabilities are better than they were in 2006 and now include precision missiles as well as a powerful wing of unmanned aerial vehicles, he boasted, saying, "In case of any confrontation, Israel would be on the verge of vanishing, and it knows this."
Israeli military intelligence pegs Hezbollah's missile arsenal at 150,000.
Nasrallah further listed Hezbollah's targets bank, naming military bases, government offices, Ben Gurion International Airport, the Haifa and Ashdod ports, the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, and the Haifa Chemicals ammonia storage facility in Haifa.
The controversial facility, which has been the subject of several petitions seeking its removal, could endanger as many as 600,000 lives if it came under attack.
Nasrallah went on to lambaste US President Donald Trump's "deal of the century" as a nonstarter.
"The deal took its last breath when Trump recognized al-Quds [Jerusalem] as the capital of Israel. There is not a single Palestinian who will agree to a deal in which the Christian and Muslim holy sites of al-Quds will be transferred to Israel," he declared.
He further announced that the Iran-backed Shiite group has and will continue to reduced its forces in Syria as fighting wanes.
The heavily armed Hezbollah has played a vital role in helping Syrian President Bashar Assad to survive the civil war that threatened to unseat him.
"There are no regions in Syria that we have fully emptied out, but there is no need for the numbers to stay the same," Nasrallah told Al-Manar TV. "We have reduced the forces based on the needs of the current situation."
