US sanctions Lebanese environmental NGO acting as cover for Hezbollah on border

By Jacob Magid

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16 August 2023, 8:20 pm

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Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

An installation of the Lebanese agricultural NGO 'Green Without Borders' that the IDF says serves as an observation outpost for Hezbollah on the Israeli-Lebanese border, publicized on June 22, 2017. (Israel Defense Forces)

The US State Department announces that it will be sanctioning a Lebanese NGO that has functioned as a cover for the Hezbollah terror group to operate along the country’s border with Israel.

Green Without Borders’s sites “have been used to conduct Hezbollah weapons training, to provide support for Hezbollah’s activities along the Blue Line in southern Lebanon, and to impede the freedom of movement of the UN Security Council-mandated United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),” the State Department says.

The State Department says that the sanctions against GWB and its head
Zuhair Subhi Nahla are “part of our efforts to prevent and disrupt financial and other support for terrorist attacks in Lebanon, Israel and around the world.”