Hezbollah warns it will rocket Tel Aviv airport if Israel attacks Lebanese infrastructure
By APTuesday, February 16, 2010
Hezbollah warns of retaliation for any Israeli hit
BEIRUT — Hezbollah’s leader says the militant group will fire rockets at Tel Aviv airport if Israel attacks Lebanon’s infrastructure.
Israel battled Hezbollah militants in a 2006 war that devastated southern Lebanon and parts of Beirut, and in recent months both sides have exchanged tough words of warning.
Hassan Nasrallah said the group’s rockets would also target buildings in Israel’s seaside metropolis of Tel Aviv if Israeli warplanes hit buildings in Hezbollah’s stronghold in Beirut’s southern outskirts.
Nasrallah spoke Tuesday via a video link from a secret location to a rally commemorating the 2008 assassination of Hezbollah’s top military commander, Imad Mughniyeh. He was killed by a car bomb in Damascus, Syria, in an unsolved attack.
