Hezbollah rebuilds
Yeah, it'd be great to think Israeli military action defanged Hezbollah last summer. I'm betting not. On the plus side, UNIFIL has at least pushed Hezbollah's frontline positions much further north. And hey...maybe this time they won't be within "danger close" distances to UN observation posts:
In one case, a bunker complex 100 feet underground covering an area of almost a square mile was built within 300 yards of a UNIFIL observation post and an Israeli army position on the border, but its existence remained hidden until after the war.
"They let us see certain things like their observation posts along the border fence, but all the time they were building an underground city in the south that we never knew existed," says Timur Goksel, who retired as UNIFIL's senior adviser in 2003.
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