DAR AL HARB/ISLAM - ISRAEL/LEBANON: HIZ B'ALLAH REARMING SOUTH OF THE LITANI RIVER, EVEN THOUGH U.N. PEACEKEEPERS 'CONTROL' THE AREA

Israeli intelligence warns of Hezbollah rearming in south Lebanon: report

Israeli Military Intelligence claimed on Monday that Hezbollah was rebuilding its forces in the area south of the Litani River in Lebanon despite the presence of international peacekeepers, local daily Ha'aretz reported.

Brigadier General Yossi Baidatz, the head of the research division of Military Intelligence, made the warning in a speech at the Knesset (parliament) Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.
"Hezbollah continues to rehabilitate, from a military and a social perspective. It is acquiring a large number of weapons from Iran and Syria," Baidatz told the lawmakers.

"It is preparing itself for possible conflict in the summer, but is not interested in this as it aspires to a period of calm in which to rehabilitate," he added.

On the contrary, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset last week that "the situation in southern Lebanon has changed completely" since the summer 2006 war between Israeli army and Hezbollah.

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