Hezbalah caches south of the Litani being destroyed by UN troops
Ynet:
What's really happening on the Lebanese border? The presence of UNIFIL and Lebanese forces on Lebanon's southern border is finally producing some results for Israel .The story also discusses conflict that have arise with the French and German forces. The French were objecting to the overflights, but were later convinced that they were necessary to spot Hezballah's latest attempts to hide new bunkers. The action against the weapons caches left south of the Litani is a real surprise, but a pleasant one.
Granted, Hizbullah is still succeeding in rebuilding its fighting force and increase its rocket stores in Lebanon north of the Litani.
However, information gathered by the defense establishment indicates that the presence of UN and Lebanese soldiers in southern Lebanon is making it difficult for the organization to rebuild combat infrastructure in southern Lebanon, especially in areas tangential to the Israeli border.
Furthermore, Ynet recently received intelligence information the international force discovered and demolished two rocket caches, as well as additional weapons abandoned by Hizbullah.
UNIFIL soldiers transferred the uncovered rockets to Lebanese troops in the area, who detonated them in a controlled manner, under the watch of the UN soldiers.
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Hizbullah, in order to recover their loss of military supplies, has been building new bunkers and caches, hidden among the natural coverage from rocks and foliage along the Litani.
Sources in the IDF posit that some of the bunkers are hidden south of the Litani, underneath the noses of the French soldiers. In order to discover them, and to verify that militants are not returning to similar "natural preserves" closer to Israel's northern border, the IAF must take low-height aerial photographs.
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