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Hizbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah says his guerrilla group has body parts of Israeli soldiers left on southern Lebanon's battlefields during the war between the arch-foes in 2006.
Addressing hundreds of thousands of cheering Shiite Muslim followers in southern Beirut during the annual Ashura religious rally, Nasrallah said he would respond to Israeli violations of Lebanese sovereignty if they did not cease.
Hizbollah and Israel fought a 34-day war, which was triggered after the guerrilla group captured two Israeli soldiers in a cross-border raid in July 2006.
"Oh Zionists your Army is lying to you ... your Army has left the body parts of your soldiers in our villages and fields," the black-turbanned leader said in a speech transmitted to the crowd on a huge screen.
"Our mujahideen used to fight these Zionists, killing them and collecting their body parts. I am not talking about regular body parts. I tell the Israelis, we have the heads of your soldiers, we have hands, we have legs."
Nearly 1200 people in Lebanon and 157 Israelis, mostly soldiers, died during the war.
- REUTERS
