Palestinians: Hezbollah influence in West Bank on the wane
Hezbollah's influence on Fatah's Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades has been checked in recent months, Palestinian security sources said yesterday. On the other hand, the extremist Lebanese Shi'ite organization has restored its military capabilities, particularly its long-range missile arsenal, nearly a year following the Second Lebanon War, senior Israeli security sources confirmed yesterday.
According to Palestinian security sources, Hezbollah has not ceased its efforts to penetrate Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades cells, but its ability to do so has been seriously curtailed.
The sources pointed to a number of reasons Hezbollah is finding it difficult to penetrate the organization and gain control of its members in order to carry out terrorist activities on its behalf against Israel.
Israel's security forces have primarily succeeded in killing or arresting many of the cells that had been under Hezbollah control, mostly in the area of Nablus and northern West Bank.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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