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Re****t: Hezbollah man says new attack on Israel is question of
'when,
not if'
By Haaretz Service
Two years after the Second Lebanon War, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah
organization has bolstered its recruitment efforts at an unprecedented
rate
in preparation for a fresh war with Israel, The Guardian re****ted Sunday.
The re****t quoted an unnamed Hezbollah fighter as saying: "It's not
a
matter of if, it's a matter of when Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah [Hezbollah
chief] commands us" to attack.
According to the re****t, the Islamist group has of late been sending
"hundreds, if not thousands" of recruits to training camps in Lebanon,
Syria
and Iran in ancticipation of conflict with Israel.
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"The villages in the south are empty of men," an international
official was quoted as saying. "They are all gone, training in Bekaa,
Syria
and Iran."
Israel and the Hezbollah fought a 34-day war in the summer of 2006,
sparked by the militant group's cross-border raid and abduction of two
Israel Defense Forces reservists.
During the conflict, Hezbollah launched some 4,000 rockets at
northern
Israel and was said to have thousands more in its reserves. The numbers of
casualties on both sides have been disputed, particularly in terms of the
Islamist group's loss of manpower.
Meanwhile, the UN re****ted last month that Hezbollah is rearming and
has an arsenal including 10,000 long-range rockets and 20,000 short-range
rockets in southern Lebanon.
A resurgence of Hezbollah fighters has been encountered recently in
southern Lebanon, despite an international ban on the Islamist group's
presence in the contentious area.
Hezbollah militants warded off members of the United Nations Interim
Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) last month when the peacekeepers discovered a
truck carrying weapons and ammunition belonging to the Lebanon-based
guerilla group.
The incident was the first time that UNIFIL forces were confronted
by
armed Hezbollah men south of Lebanon's Litani River, an area which
Security
Council resolution 1701 prohibits Hezbollah from entering.
Israel has expressed dissatisfaction with the way resolution is
being
implemented, particularly in the way Hezbollah has been permitted to
reinforce its position south of the Litani and to continue smuggling
weapons
from Syria and Iran.
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