Hezbollah says has rockets that can kill thousands of Israelis

BEIRUT, Aug 17 (Reuters) - The Iranian-backed Lebanese group

Hezbollah said on Friday it possessed what it called precision

rockets that could kill "tens of thousands" of Israelis in

strikes on Israel.

"I tell the Israelis that you have a number of targets, not

a large number ... that can be hit with precision rockets ...

which we have," Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah

said in a broadcast speech. He said he would not identify the

targets.

"Hitting these targets with a small number of rockets will

turn ... the lives of hundreds of thousands of Zionists to real

hell, and we can talk about tens of thousands of dead," said

Nasrallah.