UN: Highly unlikely Hezbollah is rearming in south Lebanon

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It is highly unlikely that Lebanese Hezbollah militants have more weapons now in southern Lebanon than they did at the time of their 2006 war
with Israel, the head of United Nations peacekeeping said on Wednesday.

Israel says Hezbollah continues to increase its weapons stockpiles south of the Litani River where the 13,000-strong UNIFIL peacekeeping mission is charged with keeping out armed fighters and illicit weapons. "I think it would be very difficult for Hezbollah to put additional weapons in the area," Alain Le Roy, the French head of the UN Department of Peacekeeping, told reporters.

"I don't speak of north of the Litani River, because there UNIFIL has no mandate," he said. "But south of the Litani River, we consider it very unlikely."

But Le Roy added that he could not be certain: "We cannot give a 100 percent guarantee."


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