Beirut, Sept. 1 -- The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday categorically denied Israeli claims about his group having factories to produce precision-guided missiles in Lebanon, saying such "lies" were an attempt to justify Israeli attacks against the country.

In a speech to hundreds of his followers who gathered in the group's stronghold in southern Beirut, Hassan Nasrallah said his group possessed precision-guided missiles but not the factories to produce them.

"We do not have factories to produce precision-guided missiles in Lebanon," he said.

He spoke a week after Israel crash-landed two drones in Hezbollah-dominated southern Beirut. One of the drones landed on the roof of Hezbollah's media office while another exploded and cr...