Lebanese Hezbollahinfo-icon said on Thursday that any future conflictinfo-icon between the resistance group and Israelinfo-icon could take place inside Israeli territory, at a time of high tension between the arch foes.

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallahinfo-icon also said in a live televised speech that the group had dismantled all its military positions along Lebanoninfo-icon's eastern border with Syriainfo-icon, and this area was now the "responsibility of the state".

Israel "is scared and worried of any future confrontation... and knows that it could be inside the occupied Palestinian territories," Nasrallah said.

Two Israeli air strikes against Hezbollah targets inside Syria in recent weeks have raised tension between the two.

Nasrallah said the Syrian conflict had entered a new phase, without elaborating, but added that any opportunity to halt the fighting in the country should be seized.