ANSD : UN Security Council meets over 'Hezbollah tunnels'

TUE 26 - 11 - 2024

Date: Dec 20, 2018
Source: The Daily Star

UN Security Council meets over 'Hezbollah tunnels'

_{The Daily Star}
BEIRUT: The United Nations Security Council met Wednesday to discuss the discovery of tunnels allegedly dug by Hezbollah from Lebanon into Israeli territory, amid heightened tensions between Lebanon and the Jewish state.

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix said the investigation of the tunnels and their source would be a “complex task,” but added unequivocally that the tunnels violate U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, adopted in 2006 to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah.

“While the tunnels do not appear so far to have exit points on the Israeli side, they are a serious violation of Resolution 1701,” Lacroix said.

Israel announced Sunday that it had unearthed another tunnel allegedly dug by Hezbollah - at least the fourth tunnel to be excavated in the past couple of weeks since the Jewish state rolled out Operation Northern Shield to find and block the tunnels.

UNIFIL had confirmed the existence of four tunnels on the border, at least two of which crossed the Blue Line.

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