Israel may present the coordinates for tunnels that it alleges Hezbollah dug into its territory at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council scheduled for Wednesday, local media reported Monday.
The UNSC meeting will take place after the announcement Sunday that Israel had found yet another alleged Hezbollah tunnel - the fourth one unearthed in the past couple of weeks. It has launched Operation Northern Shield to block them.
At the meeting, “there is a high possibility that Israel will present the coordinates for the tunnels, which Lebanon has been awaiting,” local daily Al-Liwaa reported.
Lebanon, meanwhile, will likely stake one of two positions at the session, the newspaper said: that Israel may have built some of the tunnels “as a pretext to incite trouble with the Lebanese government,” or that the tunnels were old and built even before the 2006 Israeli War on Lebanon.
The meeting was called by the United States’ ambassador to the U.N. The Jerusalem Post quoted Israel’s U.N. ambassador, Danny Danon, as saying last week that the session will be “open.”
The outlet also reported that Danon “will present Israeli material and findings related to the violation of its sovereignty by the tunnels, and argue that this is a blatant violation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701,” the agreement that ended the 2006 war.
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