Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
Two recent incidents shows that Hezbollah regards UNIFIL as being an annex to their own forces, and is upset when they don't serve their Hezbollah masters.
Hezbollah is complaining that Germany, which leads the UNIFIL Maritime Task Force, didn't inform them of the raid ahead of time.
Hezbollah's new leader, Naim Qassem, said in a speech last week, "For the Israelis to enter in this manner is a grave insult to Lebanon and a violation of its sovereignty. Ask UNIFIL, especially the Germans, what they saw that night and what actions they took," Qassem said.
The UNIFIL Naval Force's entire job is to stop Hezbollah weapons coming from the sea. However, Hezbollah expects UNIFIL to be their ally - to provide intelligence, and to avoid performing its mandate.
There was another UNIFIL incident where Hezbollah is upset at UNIFIL and expected UNIFIL to be on their team.
Hezbollah has accused German forces within UNIFIL of shooting down a drone off the Lebanese coast on Oct. 17. The downing of the drone occurred following a series of attacks targeting UNIFIL forces in southern Lebanon.While they officially declared the drone's origin as "unknown," sources close to Hezbollah have suggested that the downed aircraft belonged to the party. An article published in the pro-Hezbollah newspaper Al-Akhbar directly accused German forces of intentionally targeting a "resistance drone," further fueling tensions.
Since 2020, Germany considers all of Hezbollah to be a terrorist organization. Hezbollah's goal in targeting Germany for insults, rather than UNIFIL as a whole, seems to be to get Germany kicked out of UNIFIL as a biased member, since it sells arms to Israel.
Which means, again, that Hezbollah considers UNIFIL to be an ally and it is upset when it does what it is supposed to do: stop proliferation of Hezbollah weapons in southern Lebanon.
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