Hezbollah spiritual leader threatens missiles on Haifa

Hezbollah spiritual leader, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, said Monday that if Israel attacks Lebanon, Hezbollah will respond by firing Katyusha missiles that can reach Haifa.

Fadlallah's remarks come a day after Hezbollah fired salvos on IDF positions in the Mt. Dov and Hermon regions - the eighth straight day that the Iranian-backed Shi'ite movement has kept up the fire on the northern border.

Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah also turned up the rhetoric, warning of a wider confrontation if Israel caused a mass migration of Palestinian refugees. "There are people waiting for the front to expand from the sea to Mt. Hermon," Nasrallah said.

Nasrallah described the recent escalation as "serious," but said that Hezbollah and other Palestinian organizations would not make use of all the means at their disposal, unless Prime Minister Ariel Sharon left them no choice.