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Jerusalem - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak on Tuesday warned the Lebanese Hezbollah movement not to "test" Israel along its heavily guarded northern border.

"The soldiers of the Israeli army are watching everything that occurs near the frontier with Lebanon and I would not advise anyone to test Israel, which is the strongest country in the region," Barak told public radio.

Barak made the remarks while on an inspection tour of the border, where Hezbollah militants seized two Israeli soldiers in a deadly cross-border raid in 2006, kicking off a 34-day war.

Israel has been on high alert after the end of a 40-day mourning period for top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughnieh, who was killed in a February 12 bombing in Damascus that the militia blamed on the Jewish state.