To UNIFIL or not to UNIFIL……………..
“But Hezbollah, which controls large swathes of southern Lebanon, has shown growing distrust of the blue-helmeted troops, with deputy chief Naim Qassem saying UNIFIL should "pay attention to what it does." "Their behavior is incomprehensible," Agriculture Minister Hussein Hajj Hassan, a member of Hezbollah, told local television on Thursday. "One wonders what they want." Tension on the Lebanese-Israeli border has been on the rise since April when Israel accused Damascus, Hezbollah's main backer along with Iran, of smuggling Scud missiles to the Shiite party. The Israeli military this month published a series of aerial photographs of what it says is evidence of Hezbollah stockpiling weapons in towns and villages near the frontier…….”
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