JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is growing increasingly frustrated with new intelligence revealing that Hezbollah is rapidly restocking rockets, anti-tank missiles and artillery just months after a U.S.-brokered cease-fire, shifting the focus from the militant group’s disarmament to its rearmament, according to people familiar with Israeli and Arab intelligence.
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The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Hezbollah is replenishing its arsenal through Lebanese seaports, weakened but still operational smuggling routes via Syria, and by manufacturing some weapons domestically.
Israel has shared intelligence with the Lebanese army to aid in disarming Hezbollah and conducted more than 1,000 strikes against the Iran-backed group since the November cease-fire, the sources said. But progress has stalled as Hezbollah digs in, insisting its weapons are essential to defend Lebanon’s sovereignty.
Under the cease-fire agreement, Lebanon was required to begin disarming Hezbollah in southern regions before expanding efforts nationwide, in line with prior U.N. resolutions. Instead, the group has rebuilt capabilities at a pace alarming Israeli officials, who now warn that patience is wearing thin.
There can’t be cease fires with these terrorists groups!!!!
Israel is “furious”??
Is anyone actually surprised?? unless you have zero knowledge of history and insist on using the ostrich technique