Hizbullah threatened "earth shattering" retaliation against Israel which the group accuses of killing its top commander Imad Mughniyeh in a car bombing in Damascus last February.

"Retaliation is coming soon," Hizbullah official in south Lebanon Sheikh Ahmad Mrad said in remarks published by the daily Al Akhbar on Friday.

"Retaliation is going to be earth shattering and there will be huge surprises," he vowed.

"Resistance weapons will stay in the hands of Hizbullah until Palestine is liberated," Mrad pledged.

He declared that Hizbullah would go deep into Palestine and vowed that "Israel will no longer exist on the map."