Thursday, August 23, 2012

Hezbollah Drill Prepares to 'Occupy the Galilee'

Over 10,000 Hezbollah fighters participated in the organization's largest military exercise to date last week, which included defensive tactics and preparations to occupy the Upper Galilee, Lebanese newspaper Al-Joumhouria reported.

The report noted that the drill lasted three days and the majority of the soldiers that participated in the exercise belonged to special forces. According to the ‘informed source,’ Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah is said to have called for the organization to make the appropriate preparations to occupy northern Israel. 

 It is widely believed that any sort of military action that Israel takes against Iran would be followed by a response from the Lebanese Shi'ite paramilitary organization on its northern border. Last Friday, Nasrallah threatened to rain rockets onto Israel's North as part of his public address on Al-Quds Day…”   For more on the story see here

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