Hezbollah chief threatens Israel over Syria strikes

January 16, 2015 02:16

Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened in an interview today to retaliate against Israel for repeated strikes on Syria and said he has missiles that can hit the Jewish state.

Nasrallah told Al-Mayadeen television that his powerful Shiite movement has had Iranian Fateh-110 missiles that can hit the whole of Israel since 2006, adding that it is always ready to fight Israel.

A key ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Nasrallah, who has sent thousands of fighters into Syria to help defend the regime, said that Israeli strikes on Syria "target the whole of the resistance axis", which includes

Hezbollah, Damascus and Tehran.

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