Likud MK Amit Halevi, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said on Wednesday that UNIFIL is helping Hezbollah by monitoring Israeli troop movements and passing the information along. In an interview with Kan News radio’s “Kovnovik” program on Reshet Bet, he also alleged that weapons are being smuggled under the cover of UNIFIL convoys. Halevi said UNIFIL has cooperated with Hezbollah for years, not only during the current war, and claimed senior intelligence officials had told him as much.
Halevi argued that this alleged support includes both intelligence gathering and what he called humanitarian cover. He said UNIFIL vehicles are used to move arms and even militants into southern Lebanon, including areas close to the Israeli border. “This force is helping Hezbollah, I am saying this as a fact,” he said, adding that the issue should be stated publicly by the head of Military Intelligence, by the Foreign Ministry, and at the UN. He compared the situation in Lebanon to UNRWA’s role in Gaza.
The MK said he did not believe an Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon was currently on the table. He said Israel must keep fighting, expand its gains, and destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure, including what he described as its real sources of power such as real-estate companies and drug fields. He also said that after recent Israeli strikes in Beirut’s Dahiya and elsewhere, Israel is operating inside Lebanon, Gaza, and Syria, and must continue toward a decisive outcome.
Halevi also addressed the US-Iran agreement nearing implementation, calling it “bad for the free world” and warning that Iran remains an ideological enemy seeking to destroy Israel and spread influence globally. He said the deal has bought time for Israel to prepare for the next confrontation and to improve its self-sufficiency in weapons. On domestic politics, he backed keeping Likud primaries, citing the party’s 170,000 active members, but said the prime minister should still be able to reserve slots on the list.
