Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan leads a group of 12 UN ambassadors on a tour of Israel’s northern border with Lebanon.
The delegation — which consists of ambassadors from Albania, Argentina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Ecuador, Hungary, Nauru, Palau, South Korea, Samoa, Uruguay and Zambia — tour a Hezbollah smuggling tunnel and hear from security officials.
The visit is designed “to show them the murderous and extremist plan of the terrorist organization Hezbollah,” says Erdan, “whose goal is to burrow into the territory of the State of Israel and to kill or kidnap as many citizens as possible. Hezbollah has been planning this for years, but the IDF uncovered it.”
Erdan says he expects the UN and the international community “to hold the government of Lebanon responsible for what will happen in the next conflict in the North… the ambassadors need to understand that the IDF will have no choice but to destroy all of Hezbollah’s infrastructure in Lebanon if it opens fire on the citizens of Israel.”
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