I'm John Batchel with my colleague Jonathan Shanzer of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy,

an executive director, and we're looking now at Lebanon.

Last time we talked, Lebanon had been quiet for some time.

And as of last week, late last week, I had a report that residents that have been dishomed for more than a year were starting to return to the communities along the north.

And then three rockets fired from north of the Latani River, crudely fired, I'm told.

And there's reason to believe that the residents will now hesitate to

return. What do we know about those rockets? And Hizbala, of course, is denying. Do we believe it?

Well, as we understand it, John, it was not Hizbollah that fired these rockets. It was, in fact,

Palestinian Islamic jihad. Although I think that's a distinction without much of a difference.

Both are Iran-back groups, and I'm sure that Hezbollah knew, at least of the plans to do this,

if not exactly how and when these rockets were going to fire. The good news was that three fell short.

They actually landed back in Lebanon, and then two were shot down by Israel.

One fell into an open space.

This was essentially a non-event, but I think you're right to point out that the people of

Northern Israel have been very reticent.

They're still concerned about the prospect of Lebanon heating back up again.

And they're not wrong to be worried about it.

Hezbollah still has roughly one-third of its arsenal.

And if you remember what they started with at the beginning of this war, they had somewhere

between 150 and 180,000 rockets in their arsenal.

That means that right now they've got 50,000 plus still at their disposal,

and that is, of course, a major concern for the Israeli population. So the reticence to

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