A  Conservative MP has told colleagues “something should be done” about the arsenal of up to 150,000 Hezbollah missiles on Israel’s northern border.

Speaking passionately during a Westminster Hall debate on Wednesday, Phillip Hollobone, the pro-Israeli  Kettering MP, said: “There is, on Israel’s northern border, a rocket arsenal of up to 150,000 missiles which are aimed at all the major towns and cities of one of our closest allies… frankly I think something should be done about it.”

He added the British Government should ban the political wing of Hezbollah, saying the militant group “doesn’t see a difference between military and political wing”.

Only the military wing is banned in Britain, which has allowed people to legally fly the organisation’s flag at the annual Al Quds Day Parade in central London, which takes place on Sunday.

“Very distinguished international bodies have banned Hezbollah outright, they’ve proscribed it as a terrorist organisation… frankly I think we should join them,” Mr Hollobone said.

“Hezbollah is an Iranian creation that sits as the crown jewel in Iran’s regional strategy of Jihadi revolutionary warfare. It is in short the most powerful armed non-state actor in the world. This is an organisation which potentially is more lethal than ISIS, and it is all backed and funded by Iran.”

Stephen Crabb, who chairs the Conservative Friends of Israel, attacked the “entirely artificial distinction” between Hezbollah’s two wings.

Tory MP Mark Harper condemned how people could fly the flags “because when they get challenged about being a proscribed military organisation they effectively have some small print at the bottom of the flag which says that they are the civilian wing and the police are then not empowered to do anything about the march.”