Netanyahu asks for UN sanctions on Hezbollah

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took Israel-based diplomats to the border with Lebanon Yesterday, showing them the site of a Hezbollah tunnel and calling for sanctions against the Shiite militant group.

“I told the ambassadors that they should condemn this aggression by Iran, Hezbollah and Hamas, unequivocally, and of course also to intensify the sanctions against these elements,” he said.

Israel announced on Tuesday that it had discovered Hezbollah tunnels infiltrating its territory from Lebanon and launched an operation to destroy them. Netanyahu says he expects the UN to strongly condemn the violation.

Netanyahu said yesterday that Hezbollah, like Hamas in the Gaza Strip, was acting on behalf of its patron Iran.

The military said it had located one such tunnel dug in the Kfar Kila area of south Lebanon that crossed into Israeli territory.

Meanwhile, the UN was to vote yesterday on a USdrafted resolution condemning the Palestinian Hamas movement. If adopted, it would mark the first time the 193-nation assembly has taken aim at Hamas since 2007.