IDF Chief Calls on UNIFIL to Stop Hezbollah’s Precision Missile Project
In a meeting with UNIFIL Commander Stefano Del Col, Kochavi said Israel “will not accept harm to our citizens or our soldiers, and will not accept Hezbollah’s precision missile project on Lebanese soil”
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| 02/09/2019
IDF Chief Aviv Kohavi meets with UNIFIL Commander Stefano Del Col in Tel Aviv (Photo: IDF)
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi on Sunday called on United Nations peacekeepers and the Lebanese government to take action against Hezbollah’s precision missile project.
Kochavi conveyed this position in a meeting with Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col, the head of the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who called the attack against Israel a “serious incident in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701 and clearly directed at undermining stability in the area.”
On Sunday, Hezbollah fired anti-tank guided missiles at Israeli positions near the security border fence. The IDF retaliated by firing approximately 100 artillery shells and bombs at Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
Kochavi, who was meeting Del Col for the first time since he assumed his position in January, told the UNIFIL commander that Israel “will not accept harm to our citizens or our soldiers, and will not accept Hezbollah’s precision missile project on Lebanese soil.”
“The state of Lebanon and UNIFIL must bring an end to Iran and Hezbollah’s precision missile project in Lebanon and fully implement [UN] Security Council Resolution 1701,” Kochavi said, referring to the resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
“The current state of affairs is not one we can accept,” he said.
[Sources: The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post]
In a meeting with UNIFIL Commander Stefano Del Col, Kochavi said Israel “will not accept harm to our citizens or our soldiers, and will not accept Hezbollah’s precision missile project on Lebanese soil”
IDF Chief Aviv Kohavi meets with UNIFIL Commander Stefano Del Col in Tel Aviv (Photo: IDF)
IDF Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi on Sunday called on United Nations peacekeepers and the Lebanese government to take action against Hezbollah’s precision missile project.
Kochavi conveyed this position in a meeting with Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col, the head of the UN’s Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), who called the attack against Israel a “serious incident in violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701 and clearly directed at undermining stability in the area.”
On Sunday, Hezbollah fired anti-tank guided missiles at Israeli positions near the security border fence. The IDF retaliated by firing approximately 100 artillery shells and bombs at Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
Kochavi, who was meeting Del Col for the first time since he assumed his position in January, told the UNIFIL commander that Israel “will not accept harm to our citizens or our soldiers, and will not accept Hezbollah’s precision missile project on Lebanese soil.”
“The state of Lebanon and UNIFIL must bring an end to Iran and Hezbollah’s precision missile project in Lebanon and fully implement [UN] Security Council Resolution 1701,” Kochavi said, referring to the resolution that ended the 2006 Second Lebanon War.
“The current state of affairs is not one we can accept,” he said.
[Sources: The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post]
