Ahead of the 17th anniversary of Hezbollah’s 2006 cross-border attack on
northern Israel that sparked the Second Lebanon War, the Iran-backed group
established a tent inside a disputed Israel-held area of the Golan Heights
known as the Shebaa Farms. Israel has requested that the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) remove the outpost, but Hezbollah remains defiant. In
a speech last week commemorating the start of the 2006 war, Hezbollah
Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah claimed, “If there’s any harm to the tent,
we won’t stay quiet.”





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Hezbollah Position In Golan Heights Escalates Tensions With Israel On War’s
Anniversary



(New York, N.Y.) — Ahead of the 17th anniversary of Hezbollah’s 2006
cross-border attack on northern Israel that sparked the Second Lebanon War, the
Iran-backed groupestablished
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Israel-held area of the Golan Heights known as the Shebaa Farms.



Israel has requested
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that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) remove the outpost,
but Hezbollah remains defiant. In aspeech
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last week commemorating the start of the 2006 war, Hezbollah Secretary-General
Hassan Nasrallah <[link removed]>
claimed, “If there’s any harm to the tent, we won’t stay quiet.” In a separate
Hezbollah attempt to test the border last week, three Hezbollah members were
wounded
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in an explosion as they attempted to break through the border fence.



UNIFIL’s mandate expanded under U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which
called for a ceasefire in the 2006 war and tasked thedeployed
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with assisting the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in “taking steps” to ensure
southern Lebanon remains free of unauthorized weaponry and “armed personnel.”
Nonetheless, Hezbollah has continued toamass weapons
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border with Israel as UNIFIL, lacks authority to directly confront
Hezbollah—which remains the strongest military power in Lebanon. UNIFIL
responded to Hezbollah’s recent incursion by urging “everyone to cease any
action that may lead to escalation of any kind” while they investigated the
situation.



While Hezbollah continues to act outside of the Lebanese security apparatus,
it has also successfully frozen Lebanon’s government. Lebanon’s presidency
remains vacant, as Hezbollah has continued tostall
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the Lebanese parliament’s attempts to elect the post. Hezbollah’s
parliamentarians and their allies havedenied
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Lebanon’s parliament the two-thirds quorum required to elect a new president,
deepening Lebanon’s political and economic crises.



To read the Counter Extremism Project (CEP)’s resource on Hezbollah, please
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To read CEP’s resource Lebanon: Extremism and Terrorism, please click here
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