{"id":2889,"date":"2018-10-24T11:43:27","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T22:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=2889"},"modified":"2019-05-19T15:04:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T03:04:02","slug":"un-fails-to-confront-hezbollah-on-israeli-border-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/10\/un-fails-to-confront-hezbollah-on-israeli-border-again\/","title":{"rendered":"UN fails to confront Hezbollah on Israeli border again"},"content":{"rendered":"

The past month has seen\u00a0three Israelis murdered<\/a>\u00a0in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), and\u00a0continuing violence at the border with Gaza<\/a>\u00a0(including\u00a0a rocket that destroyed an Israeli home<\/a>). There have also been some developments in the North.<\/p>\n

Israeli forces have\u00a0identified an observation post Hezbollah established near its border with Lebanon<\/a>. This is the sixth such post to be found by Israel and yet the United Nations peacekeeping force tasked with stopping a militant Hezbollah presence south of the Litani River, UNIFIL,\u00a0continually fails in its mission<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The uncovering of the observation post –\u00a0disguised as part of a fictitious green organisation ostensibly monitoring the environment\u00a0<\/a>– comes at a time when Hezbollah has just\u00a0received advanced GPS components from Iran<\/a>\u00a0which will allow the terrorist group to make previously unguided rockets into precision guided-missiles. Hezbollah has already\u00a0stockpiled more than 120,000 missiles under the houses on the mountain overlooking Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For anyone who thinks that a UN force might be part of a solution to the ongoing conflict anywhere in or outside the Middle East, this should give pause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The past month has seen\u00a0three Israelis murdered\u00a0in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria), and\u00a0continuing violence at the border with Gaza\u00a0(including\u00a0a rocket that destroyed an Israeli home). There have also been some developments in the North. Israeli forces have\u00a0identified an observation post Hezbollah established near its border with Lebanon. This is the sixth such post to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2889"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4303,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2889\/revisions\/4303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}