Posted on 07/02/23
| News Source: Arutz-7
One of the Hezbollah posts that were set up in tents on Mount Dov, inside Israeli territory, was moved back towards Lebanon on Sunday, a source familiar with the details said.
Earlier on Sunday, Channel 12 reported that the defense establishment had passed a message on to the terrorist organization's leaders, stating, "We will remove the tents, even at the risk of a confrontation."
Israel's message came one day after a Lebanese MP from Hezbollah, Mohammad Ra'ad, refused the UN's request to remove the tents which were erected on Israeli territory, stating, "If the enemy doesn't want war, then it is better that it remains silent."
The Hezbollah military outposts that were illegally set up on sovereign Israeli territory were placed about 30 meters inside Israeli territory, and generators were placed there to allow Hezbollah terrorists to stay in the compound.
Footage from the outposts showed an armed Hezbollah terrorist wearing protective gear. According to a diplomatic source, members of Hezbollah's elite unit, Radwan Force, were in the compound at least part of the time.
The IDF initially contacted the UNIFIL peacekeeping force after the tents were placed in Israeli territory, but the UN peacekeepers did not arrive in the area. Only after diplomatic pressure, including from Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, did UNIFIL inspectors arrive in the area and verified that the tents were indeed inside the sovereign territory of the State of Israel.