UNSC Resolution 1701 is coming under increased fire for its inability to dismantle the terrorist group with its headquarters in Lebanon.
In an effort to stop Israel and Hezbollah, which the United States has labeled as a terrorist group, from going to war a third time, the United States and other major powers enacted Resolution 1701 at the UN Security Council in 2006. Israel battled Hezbollah twice, in the summer of 1982 and 2006.
According to experts on Lebanon and the United Nations, two crucial components of Resolution 1701 have proven to be mostly ineffectual.
The first section concerned the 10,000-strong U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which was extended in it.
assist the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) in taking over military command of the area between the Litani River and Lebanon’s southern border, taking Hezbollah’s place.
Together with the LAF, UNIFIL was entrusted with making sure the area was “free of any armed personnel, assets, and weapons.” But many observers believe that Hezbollah’s increasing assimilation into the Lebanese state has made it the de facto ruler of the nation, a heavily armed “state within a state.”
