The Lebanese Army and UN Peacekeepers Provide Cover for Hizballah in Southern Lebanon
Thirteen years after the Second Lebanon War began.
July 9, 2019
The Lebanese Army and UN Peacekeepers Provide Cover for Hizballah in Southern Lebanon
Thirteen years after the Second Lebanon War began.
In December of last year, the IDF launched Operation Northern Shield, which uncovered and destroyed six attack tunnels dug by Hizballah from Lebanon into Israel. Jerusalem had showed the Israeli-side openings of tunnels to the UN International Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)—whose task is to ensure that only the Lebanese military is operating in the southern part of that country—but no action was taken in response. With the thirteenth anniversary of the outbreak of the Second Lebanon War approaching this Friday, Assaf Orion examines the failures of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the war and created UNIFIL:
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