Constrain Hezbollah before it drags region into war, Erdan tells UNSC

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Hezbollah could spark a regional war unless the United Nations Security Council empowers its peacekeeper mission to fully monitor the terror group's movements so its activity can be constrained, Israel Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday.

"If not, Hezbollah may drag the entire region into a war that would only bring great destruction on Lebanon," Erdan told the UNSC at its monthly meeting on the Middle East.

He urged the Security Council to increase the powers granted to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon, tasked with monitoring violations to the ceasefire – codified under UNSC Resolution 1701 – which ended the 2006 second Lebanese war.

UNIFIL has operated along the Lebanese-Israeli border since 1978 and has a mandate that is renewed on an annual basis. The UNSC is expected to vote on that mandate next month.

"This council must take the opportunity of the renewal of UNIFIL’s mandate next month to rein in Hezbollah’s terror activity in southern Lebanon by assuring that UNIFIL has the tools, authority and resolve to fulfill its mandate," Erdan told the UNSC.

At issue in particular has been increased activity along the northern border by the Iranian proxy terror group Hezbollah, particularly its growing missile arsenal and its construction in the last years of border tunnels by which to attack Israel.

"When Resolution 1701 was passed, Hezbollah had about ten thousand rockets pointed at Israel. Today, it has 150,000 rockets hidden among the schools, mosques and homes of Lebanon," Erdan said.

"Iran is working day and night to help Hezbollah obtain precision-guided missiles and other advanced weapons," he said.

"Last week, two rockets were fired at Israel from within UNIFIL’s area of operations. This is completely unacceptable," the ambassador said. READ MORE