{"id":640785,"date":"2026-10-09T02:50:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640785\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T02:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:50:29","slug":"hezbollah-terror-operatives-still-located-in-southern-lebanon-pilot-zones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/640785\/","title":{"rendered":"Hezbollah terror operatives still located in southern Lebanon pilot zones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Hezbollah terror operatives are maintaining a presence in several areas within the pilot zones in southern Lebanon, KAN News reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to KAN, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/iran-news\/article-910270\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> members have been located in the areas of Froun, Srifa, and Zawtar al-Gharbiyah, flying under the radar by posing as civilians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The three aforementioned areas are located south of Nabatiya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">KAN also reported that the Hezbollah forces in the area were gathering intelligence and performing damage control with local officials.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Lebanese state is not doing what it is supposed to do; if wherever Israel leaves, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-910131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hezbollah<\/a> enters,&#8221; a Lebanese source told KAN, &#8220;and this only shows how critical the issue of disarming Hezbollah is even before the Israeli withdrawal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israeli officials have repeatedly stated that the pilot program in southern Lebanon, in which Israeli troops would withdraw in order to allow the Lebanese Armed Forces to take over operations against Hezbollah, had failed.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Walla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/middle-east\/article-906866\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cited security officials<\/a> as saying, &#8220;The LAF is not destroying terror infrastructure based on the coordinates provided to it by the IDF, while at the same time requesting more coordinates, even though it is not doing anything about it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The IDF has criticized the LAF\u2019s performance, claiming that it is not acting effectively against Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n<p>According to assessments by senior <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/idf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">IDF<\/a> officials, LAF chief Rodolphe Haykal continues to cooperate with Hezbollah, fears confrontation with commanders of the Shi\u2019ite organization in southern Lebanon, and is ineffective in carrying out searches, locating terror infrastructure, and finding weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Amir Bohbot contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hezbollah terror operatives are maintaining a presence in several areas within the pilot zones in southern Lebanon, KAN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[86,25601,21224,1031,85,46,9632,88,43],"class_list":["post-640785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-hezbollah","tag-hezbollah-disarmament","tag-hezbollah-lebanon","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-lebanese-army","tag-lebanon","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}