 The Israel Defense Forces announced this week that it was resuming a level of high alert along Israel's northern border with Lebanon, following intelligence reports that the Lebanese militant organization Hezbollah has plans to abduct IDF soldiers. According to the intelligence report, Hezbollah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah is planning to kidnap IDF soldiers to avenge the imprisonment of Lebanese militants in Israel. Among the militants imprisoned in Israel is Samir Kuntar, who murdered several members of a single Naharia family. The intelligence report said the Shi'ite militant group is also using the kidnapping threats to demonstrate its power to the Lebanese government in an effort to deter internal Lebanese attempts to disarm the militants. |