Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed that his guerrillas will fire rockets on Israel beyond the northern city of Haifa and counter Israeli military advances inside southern Lebanon.

‘We are entering a new phase in the confrontation, the phase of (striking) beyond Haifa,’ Nasrallah said in a televised speech.

Israel has repeatedly said it believes Hezbollah has longer-range rockets capable of reaching beyond Israel’s third city, as far as the commerical capital Tel Aviv, or even the southern city of Beersheva.