Hezbollah
A new report from the Jewish Institute for National Security of America’s Hybrid Warfare Task force, headed by several retired senior U.S. military officials, outlined this striking strategic threat to Israel, as well as the operational and legal challenges the country will most likely face in its next war with Hezbollah.
Israel has also sought to prevent the outbreak of a third Lebanon war for as long as possible. Hezbollah, for its own reasons, seems to share that goal; still, that has not stopped it from ambitiously preparing for future conflict.
Israeli defense officials believe that the Iranian proxy Hezbollah will try to conceal its activities to resurrect its military infrastructure and capabilities in the Syrian Golan Heights.
Mustafa Mughniyeh, the eldest son of Imad Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s former military chief whose 2008 assassination is attributed to Israel, is orchestrating group’s efforts on the Syrian Golan • For now, Hezbollah is using local Druze to gather intelligence.
As long as Iran remains committed to using Syria this way, Israel will feel compelled to defend itself. The result is a region that is never far from a potential escalation.
The outpost is disguised as belonging to a phony environmental group, Green Without Borders.
Investigations from the United States, Israel and Colombia have linked, through several financial transactions, Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s alleged accomplice Alex Saab to Hezbollah.
The initiative follows the Hezbollah Financing and Narcoterrorism Team, which consists of prosecutors who have fought against terrorism, organized crime, money-laundering and international drug-trafficking.
Among other activities, it imposes sanctions against Hezbollah for its transnational criminal activities, including drug trafficking.
“The barbaric terrorist organization Hamas sees all human life as completely disposable,” said the Endowment for Middle East Truth. “This abominable tactic must be put to an end.”
Looking to avoid economic sanctions, 143 out of 268 Iranian lawmakers voted to join a global initiative to end terrorist funding.
It remains unclear how active the sites currently are, and the revelations could be designed to deter Iran and Hezbollah from “switching them on.”
