Hezbollah head Hassan Nasrallah on Tuesday warned that rockets in the Iran-backed terror group’s arsenal were capable of hitting any place in the Jewish state—specifically that Jerusalem “will not find a single piece of land” that rockets could not hit—and that Israel would be forced to close its ports in the event of a military conflict with Hezbollah. The latter threat appeared to be a response to comments made by a senior IDF official last week to the effect that in a future war, Hezbollah was likely to target Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport and its seaport in Haifa:

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said that while IDF intelligence was unaware of any large-scale arms transfers from Syria into Lebanon in recent months, Hezbollah was nevertheless continuously working to improve its military capabilities and preparing for a violent confrontation with Israel, Channel 10 News reported Thursday.

Hezbollah is believed to have up to 100,000 rockets in its arsenal, and its leaders have for months been threatening confrontation with the Jewish state. The Lebanese terror group is believed to have constructed an underground tunnel network leading into Israel’s north, which its operatives could use to conduct a spectacular terror attack against residents along the Israel-Lebanon border:

Residents of northern Israel, who were battered by Hezbollah rockets during a month-long war in 2006, have at times reported underground noises suggesting that guerrillas were burrowing across the frontier in a new tactic.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month contextualized an October incident—in which Hezbollah fighters attacked an Israeli convoy, injuring two soldiers—against the backdrop of regional crises and instability, telling the country’s cabinet at the time that “we are witness to threats accumulating around us” and committing Israel to “respond with force against any attempt to attack” the Jewish state.

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