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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/12/31/israel-hezbollah-deadline-lebanon-strikes-netanyahu-decision/
Hizbullah Remains Entrenched in Southern Lebanon
(Israel Hayom) Lilach Shoval - The American deadline to Lebanon's government requiring Hizbullah's full disarmament by year's end expired Wednesday. The IDF said Hizbullah breached the ceasefire 2,024 times. Defense sources said Lebanese officials are falsely portraying progress in neutralizing Hizbullah. Beirut maintains that 90-95% of the territory below the Litani River in southern Lebanon has been cleared. But Israeli intelligence noted that Lebanon's army won't enter private property and villages throughout the south, and that Hizbullah is actively working to restore its capabilities there. Lebanon's military remains too feeble and insufficiently committed to truly dismantle Hizbullah. The IDF has spent months preparing for several days of renewed intensive combat in Lebanon in order to block Hizbullah's force restoration.