Hezbollah says can fight Israel without arms from Syria

Hezbollah’s chief said Saturday the Lebanese resistance group was fully equipped to combat Israel in any future war, even in the event its allies in Syria and Iran could not lend it support.

Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah also refused to comment on Bulgaria’s accusation that members of Hezbollah were behind the 2012 bombing that claimed five Israeli tourists in the European country.

“Today, the resistance in Lebanon is fully equipped. We have everything we need here in Lebanon and we don’t need to transport anything from Syria and Iran,” he said in a televised speech marking the annual commemoration of the party's "Martyred leaders."

Last month the Syrian Army accused Israel of launching a strike on a military research facility in the area of Jamraya, near Damascus, about 15 kilometers from the Lebanese border, amid reports that the strike had in fact targeted a shipment of weapons headed to Hezbollah.

In a statement issued late Wednesday, the Iranian Embassy in Lebanon said Khoshnevis, the head of the Iranian Committee for Reconstruction in Lebanon, was killed at the hands of “armed terrorist groups” while making his way from Damascus to Beirut.