I'm John Batson with my colleagues, Bill Rajo, Foundation for Defensive Democracy,

keeping the Long War Journal and Seth Fransman of the Foundation for Defensive Democracy,

the author of the new book, The October 7th War,

as well as the war correspondent for the Jerusalem Post,

following your reporting, Seth, in these last

days, a unifil base, very close to, if not providing camouflage for a Hezbollah training site.

I remember seeing some weeks ago there's so much going on, I don't remember what date.

The entrance to a tunnel near a Unifil base as well.

Is there any thinking about what Unifil and Hezbollah have been up to these many years?

Well, I think it's clear that, you know, basically Hasbullah has festooned all of southern Lebanon

every single place it can, you know, rural areas and villages with with weapons, hideouts,

places to fire anti-tank missiles from, you know, every single place. That includes places

next to the Unifil post. Now there are, I guess,

dozens of these UN posts near the border with Israel and other areas in southern Lebanon as per

its function that goes back to the late 70s and also its improved functions or bolstered functions

since UN Resolution 1701 in 2006, which was supposed to get Unifold and Lebanese

Army to kind of patrol this area. Obviously, the Lebanese Army has completely failed in its

task. Unifil seems to have done almost nothing. So it's just just this 10,000 guys sitting

around there from different countries. And what Israel found was, I think within 200 meters or something, of this

beautiful post that is in, I think, in Farcala, which is a Lebanese village very closely,

is really border not far from Matula in northern Israel. And there's a picture of it from above

that shows that Israel found a, you know, kind of a training center compound that was used

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