Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah against trying Israel's patience, saying that if the Iranian-backed Shiite terrorist group tried to test Israel's resolve it would receive a "crushing blow."
In a televised speech over the weekend, Nasrallah threatened Israel, saying the country as a whole was in range of Hezbollah missiles and that Israel would "almost vanish" in case a new conflict erupts between the two.
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"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.
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, among others.
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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.
Israeli military intelligence pegs Hezbollah's missile arsenal at 150,000.
The Israel Defense Forces often thwart weapons shipments to Hezbollah from its chief patron, Iran.
Speaking at the beginning of the weekly cabinet meeting Netanyahu said, "We all heard Nasrallah over the weekend, boasting about his plans of attack. Let me be clear: If he tries to do something foolish and attack Israel we will deal both Hezbollah and Lebanon crushing military blow.
"Unlike Nasrallah, I have no intention of detailing our plans," he continued. "Suffice to say that we destroyed terror tunnels Hezbollah spent years digging in a matter of days."
Nasrallah, he warned, "Shouldn't claim victory just yet."
