Leader defiant on Hezbollah's ability to strike

The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said Sunday his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, saying Israel's efforts to prevent it from acquiring them has failed. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in an end-of-year interview with the Beirut-based Arabic Al-Mayadeen TV, said his group has the capability to strike anywhere in Israel and occupied Palestinian territories.

Israel has in recent months expressed concern that Hezbollah is trying to establish production facilities to make precision guided missiles.Nasrallah also said that the last few weeks of the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump are critical and must be treated with care.He called Trump “angry” and “crazy.” Hezbollah is one of Iran’s main allies in the region and is a sworn enemy of Israel, with which it has had a series of confrontations, lastly in 2006.

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