
Israel's Lebanon Exit Problem: Who Will Verify the Tunnel Destruction?
Israel occupies 10 kilometers of southern Lebanon to destroy Hezbollah tunnels that breach a 2006 UN resolution. Lebanon's government and UNIFIL—the UN peacekeeping force—lack capacity to disarm Hezbollah or fill the security vacuum. A ceasefire depends on answering two urgent questions: who verifies tunnel destruction, and who secures the buffer zone. Neither has a workable solution, leaving no clear path to exit.
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