“Any Israeli movement, we will see it,” one fighter said according to the report, published Saturday. “This area is all Hezbollah members preparing only for [them] … Whether it’s Israelis or Daesh, we fear no one,” he said, using the Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group.
Israeli officials have raised alarms and complained to the UN about members of the terrorist organization apparently taking up positions near the border, despite peacekeepers and the Lebanese army tasked with keeping the area clear of armed Hezbollah fighters.
Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy, last fought an all-out war against Israel in the 34-day conflict known as the Second Lebanon War. Under the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, a ceasefire agreement reached in August 2006, the area must be “free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons,” other than UN peacekeepers and the Lebanese military, south of the Litani river, a natural barrier that at in its southern part lies roughly 20 kilometers from the Israeli border.
In the video, the Hezbollah terrorists could be seen holding rifles, which would indicate a breach of the UN resolution, though it was not clear if the “rugged hills close to the Israeli border,” were indeed within the forbidden area. READ MORE
