IDF Uncovers Hezbollah “Environmentalists” on Israel-Lebanon Border

By Hamodia Staff

A view of the Israel-Lebanon border. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)

YERUSHALAYIM – Israel’s military charged on Wednesday that Hezbollah is using the Green Without Borders environmental organization as a cover for terror operations on the Lebanon-Israel border.

Members of Hezbollah operate at an observation post while disguised as activists from Green Without Borders, according to the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee in a tweet.

Adraee posted photos of Hezbollah operatives at the site, and noted that the observation post violated U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.

The commander of the IDF’s Northern Command, Amir Baram, stated on Tuesday that “recently, the construction of Hezbollah’s frontal positions along the border has intensified. We know them by their names and where they’re coming from.”

Baram warned that “When the day comes they will pay the price, they and those sending and also the front villages that serve as a military terrorism base for them. We will destroy all the infrastructure along the line of contact.”

There was ample precedent for the Hezbollah ruse. In 2017, then head of the IDF’s Intelligence Directorate, Herzi Halevi, stated that Hezbollah had established outposts marked with the logo of Green Without Borders along the border.

The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) rejected Israeli allegations, saying that had observed Green Without Borders planting trees over a period of two years, but claimed to find no signs of Hezbollah

In September 2019, Hezbollah fired several anti-tank missiles at an IDF base and military vehicles near Avivim. This time, UNIFIL found that the missiles had been launched from an area controlled by Green Without Borders, but little came of it as the Lebanese military refused to cooperate with an investigation. A report by the Washington Institute think-tank contained a map showing the locations of 16 Green Without Borders positions along the Lebanese-Israeli border.

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