Iran and Syria are rapidly rearming Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon as an international peacekeeping force has failed to carry out a U.N. mandate to disarm the Shi'ite militia group, Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz said yesterday.This is by way of Daily Alert, which also flags the following, from Ha'aretz:
Mr. Mofaz, a former defense minister and chief of general staff in the Israeli Defense Force, also warned that time was growing short for the international community to implement effective sanctions to halt Iran's drive for nuclear weapons.
"We know the policy of the Iranian regime is to buy time by talking" while it pursues a nuclear bomb, Mr. Mofaz said in an interview in his suite at the Renaissance Mayflower Hotel in Washington. "So far they have been very successful."
"Halutz: Hundreds of arms-smuggling tunnels being dug in Gaza":
Palestinian terror groups have begun successfully digging hundreds of tunnels intended for arms smuggling near the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt, Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Dan Halutz said on Tuesday.We may be seeing the end of the Palestinian conflict as we have known it up to this point. Israel may now need to do something comprehensive just to survive.
Halutz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that IDF troops had in recent days pinpointed at least 100 1.5 km-long tunnel entrances dug by Palestinian militants in the Rafah area in southern Gaza, in the course of the days-long "Operation Squeezed Fruit." He said at hundreds more of these entrances have already been dug.
He added that militants have been continuously smuggling anti-tank missiles and large amounts of light weaponry in recent months.
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