Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that his Shiite Muslim group's fight against Israel will have no limits, in a defiant television address on Sunday.
BEIRUT: Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah warned that his Shiite Muslim group's fight against Israel will have no limits, in a defiant television address on Sunday.
"We will use all means," he said on his first television appearance since a wave of Israeli bombardments against his headquarters in Beirut's southern suburbs that have also targeted Hezbollah's Al-Manar television.
"As long as the enemy has no limits, we will have no limits," he said, while protesting over the deaths of civilians, mostly women and children, in Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon even as they were being evacuated.
"Surprises are coming. Our forces are still intact, and we are the ones who are choosing the time and the place" for the attacks, he warned.
On Sunday, Hezbollah claimed its first rocket strike on Israel's third largest city of Haifa, an attack which left eight people killed.
Stressing that his fighters were focusing on military targets rather than civilians, Nasrallah said the attack intentionally did not target petrochemical plants in the city "because we do not want to push things into the unknown".
"Our weapons are not for revenge ... but for the deterrence of the mad (members) of the government of (Ehud) Olmert," the Israeli Prime Minister who has ordered the offensive in Lebanon after Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers on Wednesday.
He said Hezbollah's strength was ensured by its "secrecy ... and the enemy does not know our capabilities ... and bases his judgement on wrong information."
And he emphasized that "the Zionist enemy is ignorant of what we have".
Nasrallah also said "I deny categorically that any Iranian soldiers took part in any (Hezbollah military) operation."
After Israeli forces targeted his home and offices for the first time on Friday, Nasrallah declared an "open war" on Israel, vowing to strike targets in Israel as far as Haifa and beyond.
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