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The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said Monday that his Iran-backed movement had 100,000 "trained" and "armed" fighters at its disposal, speaking after deadly violence in Beirut last week.
Israel does not want war with Lebanon's Hezbollah but is prepared to face about 2,000 rockets a day from the armed group if conflict breaks out, a senior Israeli military official told AFP.
Hassan Fadallah has called for perpetrators of the violent clashes that broke out in Beirut to be held accountable.
The call for army intervention by Hezbollah and Amal comes as a Lebanese army source told Reuters at least two were killed and seven wounded.
Shots were fired in the Lebanese capital on Thursday as supporters of Hezbollah and its allies gathered to demonstrate against the judge investigating the deadly Beirut port explosion.
A lawmaker of Hezbollah said that the US were meddling in the investigation into the blast at Beirut's port, in an attempt to frame the group.
Hussein Muanis is not the first candidate from among Iran-backed Shia factions, but is the first to be openly affiliated with the Kataib Hezbollah militia.
Hezbollah said it shot down an Israeli drone over south Lebanon on Thursday and an Israeli army spokesman confirmed that one of its drones had fallen 'inside Lebanese territory'.
Hezbollah official Wafik Safa sent a message to the judge investigating the Beirut blast saying: 'we will go along with you until the end of the legal road but if it doesn't work we will remove you,' according to sources.
The second of two tankers carrying Iranian fuel arrived in Lebanon via the Syrian port of Baniyas amid Lebanon's crippling energy shortages.