Report: Israel to keep striking Hezbollah 'with US cover'
Hezbollah is “trying to regain its strength in Lebanon” and Israel will keep targeting it across across the country “with a U.S. cover,” an Israeli security source told Al-Arabiya’s Al-Hadath television.
“There will be no withdrawal from the five points as Hezbollah tries to regain its strength,” the source added, accusing the Iran-backed group of “trying to smuggle arms through the airport, the port and the border.”
Alleging that Hezbollah is “smuggling equipment used in drones and precision-guided missiles,” the source claimed that “Hezbollah is too weak compared to how it was prior to the latest war.”
Noting that “Israel provides Lebanon with information about the sites it targets and their coordinates,” the source added that “we do the bombing when the Lebanese Army does not confiscate Hezbollah’s arms.”
“There is a race between the Lebanese Army and Hezbollah in controlling the weapons,” the source added.
The source’s remarks come a day after a major Israeli bombing campaign in southern and eastern Lebanon.
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