Hezbollah: European diplomats toured the north to learn about the threat

While Europe is reluctant to define the whole of Hezbollah as a terrorist organization, some 15 senior ambassadors and diplomats from leading European countries – including France, Britain, the European Union, Spain and Belgium – went on a special briefing on a helicopter tour of Israel’s northern border.

The ambassadors’ tour, which departed by helicopter from the center of the country, was organized by ELNET Europe-Israel, which works to strengthen Israel’s relations with Europe in cooperation with the IDF. In order to enable European representatives in Israel to see Hezbollah and Iran and threaten an official and active response. Against these threats.

“I was very surprised by what I saw, how much energy and time Hezbollah spent on such a thing. You have to see it to believe it,” said Belgian Ambassador to Israel Jean-Luc Bodson. The ambassador added that “as far as Iran is concerned, we in Belgium are very afraid that Iran will reach nuclear capabilities and we hope that in cooperation with the Biden administration we will succeed in reaching the best solution.”

Brigadier General Oren Seter, head of the IDF Strategic Division, said that “one of the significant challenges facing the State of Israel today is the need to halt the strengthening and weakening of Hezbollah on the one hand, and the desire to strive for a sovereign, prosperous and prosperous Lebanese state.” The commander of the 91st Division, Brigadier General Shlomi Binder, who presented the ambassadors with the largest and deepest tunnel that was exposed and neutralized in Operation Northern Shield, also addressed the security threat: “Hezbollah not only endangers the State of Israel, it endangers the State of Lebanon. Its purpose is to undermine regional stability. Our goal is to protect the residents of the north. To overtake the enemy, to act all the time and in a variety of ways and to be ready to prevail when we have to. ‘

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The tour takes place against the background of President Reuven Rivlin’s visit to Germany, alongside senior military officials to meet with Chancellor Merkel, French President Macron and Austrian Chancellor Kurtz, and discuss these threats, emphasizing the growing Iranian threat. Eight European countries have so far banned Hezbollah, six of them last year following a groundbreaking German decision.

Shai Bezeq, CEO of ELNET Europe-Israel, said: “The great response of European representatives today to come and see in person what is happening on the ground is encouraging, and we continue to harness European countries as allies of Israel, given the changing geopolitical map following the events. The many worlds. “Tightening ties and deepening the dialogue between Europe and Israel are at the core of ELNET’s mission.”

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