Syria is supplying Hezbollah with arms it never dared to transfer to Lebanon before, the head of the army’s Military Intelligence Research division told the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Ministry. Brig.Gen Yossi Baidatz said Hezbollah is currently facing a dilemma, between its jihadist identity and commitment to Iran and Lebanon’s domestic situation, he said.
"For that reason, although it has maintained the quiet and is uninterested in a clash, it is still trying to launch a revenge attack for Mugniyah's death, especially against Israeli targets abroad," Baidatz said.
He warned that Hezbollah “continues to build up its strength for a confrontation against Israel, deploys its members throughout south Lebanon and deeper, and accumulates advanced weapons – long-range missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, and anti-tank missiles, with Iran's and Syria's assistance."
Last month, the U.S. Administration asked Syria’s President Bashar Assad to immediately halt the transfer of arms to Hezbollah. The officials conveyed the U.S. request at a meeting with Syria’s Ambassador Imad Mustapha in Washington.
In a recent visit to the United States, Israel’s Defense Minister Ehud Barak told U.N. Secretary General Ban ki-Moon that the arms Iran and Syria are providing Hezbollah in Lebanon are designed to harm Israeli civilians. The defense minister said Hezbollah has over 40,000 missiles aimed at Israeli civilians, and called them weapons of terror.
Referring to Iran, Baidatz said although reports concerning the Iranian nuclear facility at Qom harmed Iran’s nuclear program, the facility continues to operate in violation of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The Iranians "continue to work at the site in violation of IAEA demands and are carrying out an experimental project to run modern centrifuges that are three or four times more effective than those currently in their possession.“ he said.
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