Islamic Terror Group Strikes with Hundreds of MISSILES in Northern Israel

Hezbollah TERROR GROUP Launches MISSILES

What had been an escalation of almost nine months of tension between Israel and the radical Islamic Shiite terror group Hezbollah in Southern Lebanon over the week appeared at fever pitch to be turning into an explosion as the U.S.-designated terror organization launched literally hundreds of missiles and rockets into northern Israel — with the Israeli military responding by mounting air strikes far further inside Lebanon.

As the violence spread to communities on both sides of the border, leaders from each side escalated their rhetoric Wednesday, with Hezbollah’s Hassan Nasrallah saying “an invasion of the Galilee remains on the table,” and Israel’s Foreign Minister Israel Katz declaring this week he believes the country is “very close” to imposing a new set of rules against Hezbollah and Lebanon. Hezbollah will disappear, and Lebanon will suffer greatly in a total war.

Almost 18 years after the last round of fighting, the odds of an Israeli-Lebanon war are growing – even with a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at maintaining calm and deploying an international military force to prevent armed hostilities.

Yet, Resolution 1701 — adopted by the United Nations Security Council in August 2006 as a way of disarming Hezbollah and pushing it further away from Israeli territory — appears to have had the opposite effect, experts told Fox News Digital this week, with the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) failing to prevent the Iranian-backed group from rearming. It is estimated that it may have acquired up to 150,000 of missiles and rockets of various ranges and types ever since the resolution was passed.

In comments to Fox News Digital, Jonathan Conricus, who previously worked as Israeli military liaison with UNIFIL and as the special representative of the army at the U.N., said, “The entire security architecture of [Resolution] 1701 – its framework, its execution and even its mandate – all is an utter failure.”

A Senior Fellow at the Washington D.C. based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), Conricus, in response to the resolution said: “It did not stop Hezbollah from building up its military and tactical-civil infrastructure; nor did it prevent a third Lebanon war – which we are currently facing”.

That is only going to jeopardize the entire region into a major war that will [be] much worse than what we’re witnessing with Hamas in Gaza,” he said.

For years, both military intelligence and local residents living near the border with Lebanon have been sounding the alarm not only that Hezbollah was smuggling advanced weapons into its stronghold but that it was also infiltrating its men secretly into southern villages across the fence – and even securing observation posts and planting its unmistakable yellow flag on hilltop positions in broad daylight for everyone to see.