Hezbollah Threatens Israel With Sign on Lebanese Border

Hezbollah Threatens Israel With Sign on Lebanese Border

by TheTower.org Staff | 02.28.17 5:18 pm
A large sign was recently placed on the Israel-Lebanon border that threatened retaliation against Israel for killing Hezbollah terrorists, the Israeli news website NRG reported Monday.
The sign featured the words “the account is not settled” alongside three images of Hamas commanders, including Imad Mughniyeh, who was killed in 2008 by a bomb believed to have been planted by Israel. The sign also displayed a map of routes that the Iran-backed terror group could take to infiltrate villages in northern Israel.
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah vowed two years ago that the next time Hezbollah attacked Israel, it would “enter into Galilee and…go even beyond the Galilee.”
Lebanese media reported earlier this month that Hezbollah had dug tunnels and acquired “game-changing” weapons on Israel’s northern border.
The Israel Defense Forces has adapted its strategy to counter Hezbollah efforts to infiltrate Israel by land or by sea, and has built physical obstacles to make it harder for Hezbollah to enter the country. Israeli security forces broke up a terror plot in the Golan Heights in October after a farmer stumbled over a cache of explosives.
Maj. Gen. Yair Golan, the IDF’s Deputy Chief of Staff, warned last April that the next war Israel fights with Hezbollah in Lebanon will be a “full-scale war” that will cause “devastating damage to Lebanon.” Hezbollah has stockpiled around 150,000 rockets and missiles, some with sophisticated guidance systems, and has placed its military infrastructure among Shiite villages in southern Lebanon, putting Lebanese civilians at risk and using them as a human shields. “There is no other way to take out this threat without…creating large damage to the Lebanese infrastructure, to Lebanese houses and other civilian facilities,” Golan stated.
An Israeli defense official told The New York Times in May 2015 that Hezbollah’s buildup in southern Lebanese villages meant that “civilians are living in a military compound” and that their lives were at risk. A few days later, a newspaper linked to Hezbollah confirmed the Israeli assessment. There have been reports of Hezbollah offering reduced-price housing to Shiite families who allow the terrorist group to hide rocket launchers in their homes.
During a meeting with Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah in August, 2015, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif boasted that the nuclear deal presented “a historic opportunity” to confront Israel. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which was passed unanimously to end the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, forbids the transfer of weaponry to the terror group, but Iran has continued to arm them, and the Security Council has refused to enforce the resolution.