Chief of Staff Gadi Eisenkot of the Israel Defense Forces met, Sunday with the head of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, Italian General Stefano Del Col.
Eisenkot presented the progress of Operation "Northern Shield", emphasizing that Hezbollah’s attack tunnels, which stretch into Israeli territory, are a blatant violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, and expressed the importance he sees in UNIFIL implementing the UN’s resolutions, working to neutralize the tunnels from the Lebanese side. He further emphasized that the responsibility for the construction of these tunnels by Hezbollah in South Lebanon lies with the Lebanese government.