The IDF passes on accurate intelligence to the UN force in Lebanon about Hezbollah's actions, but they prefer to close their eyes and remain silent and inactive.

The mandate for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon will end on August 31. It is almost certain that it will be technically renewed and approved again - its extension will continue unchanged in the current force of 13,000 troops with an annual budget of over $100 million. UNIFIL, Created following the 1978 invasion of Israel, was tasked with reducing Hezbollah's power and defending Lebanese institutions. 

The force not advance significantly in any of these key security missions for decades, during which time Hezbollah intensified militarily and even doubled its power and influence in the country. On August 6, Hezbollah fired nineteen rockets at Israel, while the organization's secretary general, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened to launch another war in the north against Israel.

The latest UN report from July raises a long-standing scandalous pattern of conspiracy between Lebanese government institutions, the LAF and Hezbollah to prevent UNIFIL from carrying out its missions under the mandate given to it. However, UNIFIL's current constraints actually promote long-term instability by allowing Hezbollah to continue dangerous operations without any real oversight and ability to prevent Hezbollah's armament including drug smuggling and cross-border weapons and to military activity of the kind that eventually led to the devastating 2006 war.