Hezbollah is in violation of UN Resolution 1701, which prohibits militias from operating inside Lebanon, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres declared in a report to the UN Security Council.
In his report, Guterres called on the Lebanese government to act to rectify the situation. He noted that the government in Beirut is required to provide UNIFIL, the UN's temporary peacekeeping force in Lebanon, access to cross-border terror tunnels and to act to disarm Hezbollah.
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Following the report's submission, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan demanded the Security Council take immediate action to stop Hezbollah from procuring further arms and act to disarm the terrorist group, according to a report in Israel National News.
In a letter to the Security Council, Erdan called on members to "declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization immediately and now allow it to receive any direct or indirect assistance."
He noted that the Lebanese terrorist group "uses human shields to protect its arsenal of more than 130,000 rockets and military infrastructure. It systematically deprives UNIFIL of its ability to discharge its mandate by restricting the organization's freedom of movement in an effort to hide its activity."
Along with the missive, Erdan sent council members a map of areas where terror tunnels had been discovered by the Israel Defense Forces, sites from which the terrorist organization had launched attacks against Israel, as well as the locations of observation posts used by Hezbollah agents posing as environmental activists with a group called Green Without Borders near the border with Israel.
Also included on the map are areas where, according to Guterres' report, UNIFIL soldiers have been denied access. On the map, these areas appear to be in close proximity to those areas that have seen terrorist activity.
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