{"id":4091,"date":"2018-12-22T18:30:44","date_gmt":"2018-12-22T05:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/?p=4091"},"modified":"2018-12-22T13:35:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-22T00:35:04","slug":"un-security-council-fails-to-take-action-on-hezbollah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/israelinstitute.nz\/2018\/12\/un-security-council-fails-to-take-action-on-hezbollah\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Security Council fails to take action on Hezbollah"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just one fortnight on from the United Nations General Assembly’s failure to pass a resolution condemning Hamas<\/a>, the Security Council has failed to take any action<\/a> in the face of Hezbollah terror tunnels recently exposed by the IDF.<\/p>\n

On 04 December 2018 the IDF launched \u2018Operation Northern Shield<\/a>‘ to destroy a tunnel that had been dug across the border into Israel by the Iranian-backed terror group, Hezbollah, from Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The cross-border tunnel outside the village of Metulla would have been used by the terrorist group to cut the community off, a senior IDF officer said<\/a>, and Israeli Ambassadro to the UN, Danny Danon, claimed Hezbollah called the tunnel-building operation \u2018Conquering the Galilee’<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The tunnel was 25 metres underground, two metres wide, and 200 metres long – of which 40 metres stretched into kiwi and apple orchards of Metulla<\/a>. This week the IDF found the fourth such tunnel<\/a> and filled it with explosives. Dozens more tunnels are believed to have been dug along the 130-kilometre border<\/p>\n

The IDF called up a small number of reservists<\/a> in preparation for potential retaliation by Hezbollah, despite the IDF activities remaining within Israeli territory. And as a precaution to protect civilians, the IDF Arabic-language spokesman issued warnings to Lebanese residents<\/a> “to stay away from any offensive [tunnel] dug from Lebanese territory into Israeli territory.”<\/p>\n

Two apparent Hezbollah militants ignored this advice and video evidence<\/a> shows them approaching a hidden IDF camera and running away from it, as a device, which was attached to the camera, explodes.<\/p>\n