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Top Israel official urges final ultimatum for Hezbollah in Lebanon

By David Brummer

 

Iranian proxy terrorists have fired rockets daily into Jewish state since Oct. 8

JERUSALEM – Israel’s Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Sunday called for Israel to give Hezbollah a final ultimatum to vacate the border area in southern Lebanon – or face the prospect of IDF invasion to remove them by force.

Smotrich, who is also chairman of the Religious Zionism party, made his statement while visiting party colleagues in the country’s north. At the meeting, he also called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to make a clear announcement on Israel’s long-term security policy – including a plan to deal with Hezbollah, arguing that, if necessary, military action would have to be taken to drive the terrorists deeper into Lebanon.

The finance minister was speaking as some 70,000 Israelis in the north of the country remain internally displaced, after they were advised to leave their homes following Hamas’ invasion of southern communities on Oct. 7 and Hezbollah’s constant – and daily – rocket attacks since Oct. 8.

“The way to bring the [evacuated Israeli] residents’ home in the north is through a military decision with a devastating assault on Hezbollah, its infrastructure and the destruction of its power,” Smotrich said.

An Israeli tank during Israel's war with Hamas in 2024. (IDF video)

An Israeli tank during Israel’s war with Hamas in 2024.

According to U.N. Resolution 1701, which brought an end to the hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in the Second Lebanon War in 2006, Iran’s Shiite proxy terrorist group is not permitted south of the Litani River – approximately 18 miles north of the Israel-Lebanon border.

That resolution – ratified in both Jerusalem and Beirut – also called for Hezbollah’s disarmament. Instead, it has amassed one of the most fearsome missile arsenals – many of the precision-guided munitions – in the entire Middle East…

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