Hizbullah's deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem said Hizbullah has not received any indications of "Israeli" readiness to launch war on Hizbullah or in the region. ""Israel" is a real danger; we can't be reassured; we have to be in full preparedness (for war). We don't know when surprises would come or what could happen regionally and internationally," Sheikh Qassem told Syria's Addounia TV.

"There is no resistance without arms. Weapons are the result of the resistance's existence and the resistance is there because of the presence of the enemy," Sheikh Qassem said.

On relations with Syria, his eminence said Hizbullah encouraged Prime Minister Saad Hariri's visit to Damascus which has shocked the March 14 team. Asked about ties with Egypt, the Hizbullah secretary general said: "The Egyptian regime has its own functioning method. We don't approve such a method."