by ICEJ News
For the second time this week, a senior Hizbullah leader has warned that the Lebanese terror militia has a detailed list of Israeli targets it would attack in the event of renewed conflict between the neighboring countries. Hizbullah has a “large and precise bank of Israeli targets” to strike if a third Lebanon war breaks out, said the Shi’ite militia’s second-in-command, Naim Kassem, in an interview published Wednesday in the An-Nahar newspaper. “Israel will have to pay the price for any step it takes.” Kassem added that, “we can safely say that in the past four years we have prepared ourselves far more than Israel has… that does not mean that war is near.” Kassem also commented on the recent attacks by Lebanese villagers on UN peacekeeping forces in South Lebanon, insisting the attacks were in response to “mistakes” the UN soldiers had made by “moving into their villages at full force, as though they were in a state of war.” On Sunday, Hizbullah sheik Nabil Kaouk, the Iranian-backed militia’s commander in southern Lebanon, said that “Hizbullah has a target list ready.” The comments have come in response to the release by Israel’s military of classified maps and aerial photographs of the Islamist militia’s network of weapons depots and command centers in southern Lebanon.
