Members of Hezbollah in military gear were filmed by Israeli forces last week patrolling along the border with Lebanon, near the northern town of Dovev. The IDF says they did not cross into Israeli territory, and were not a threat to residents of the area. pic.twitter.com/THWyRGHBeH
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Members of the Lebanese Hezbollah terror group were filmed carrying out a patrol on Israel’s border while fitted with military gear, in what appeared to be a violation of a United Nations
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resolution, the Israeli military said Tuesday.
Israel Defense Forces troops filmed the camouflaged Hezbollah members walking along the border near the northern Israeli town of Dovev last week. The troops did not engage the patrol, and on Tuesday footage of the close encounter leaked.
"During routine activity last week, the IDF recorded Hezbollah operatives moving in Lebanese territory near the border fence," the military said in response to a query on the matter.
The IDF downplayed the incident, saying the operatives did not cross the so-called Blue Line border demarcation and were under surveillance the entire time.
"If they had crossed [the Blue Line], the forces would have acted accordingly," the IDF said.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a month-long war in 2006, bars gangs aside from the official Lebanese military and peacekeeping United Nations Interim Force in Leb
...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...from operating south of Lebanon’s Litani River.
Israel regularly accuses Lebanon and UN Blue Helmets of failing to enforce the resolution by allowing Hezbollah to move armed operatives in the area.
The IDF said there was no threat to Israeli residents on the border, nor to the Israeli forces who were in close proximity to the Hezbollah operatives.
"IDF forces will continue to operate in the border area to maintain the security of the residents of the north," the military added.
The incident appeared to be the latest in a series of escalating confrontations along the northern border, most of them instigated by the Hezbollah terror group, that have raised tensions in recent months.