Taking a leaf out the Leftist playbook, Islamic terrorists are learning to use ‘environmental activism’ as a cover for their nefarious activities. A new report reveals that the Lebanon-based terrorist militia Hezbollah is using an “environmental group” to build secret military outposts along the border with Israel.
According to U.S. and Israeli government sources, the Hezbollah-linked NGO, Green Without Borders, “has been setting up outposts for the militant group along the border with Israel,” the Associated Press reported Wednesday. The Hezbollah-linked “environmental group” has been terrorizing Lebanese Christians living in the border region and forcefully taking over their farmland, the news report suggests.
Hezbollah was created by Iran’s Shia Islamic regime in early 1980s as a proxy Lebanese terrorist militia to wage jihad warfare against neighboring Israel. The terrorist outfit, headed by 62-year-old Muslim cleric Hassan Nasrallah, runs its own private army and acts as a state within a state in Lebanon.
Hezbollah uses Lebanese territory to stage terrorist attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. The terrorist group treats Lebanese civilians as human shields, and stores weapons and ammunitions in residential neighborhoods and schools. In the past, Hezbollah has dug cross-border tunnels — running from Lebanon into Israel — with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks.
“Lebanese environmental group accused of being Hezbollah arm,” by Bassem Mroue and Fay Abuelgasim, Associated Press, January 25, 2023:
On the outskirts of this southern Lebanese village, workers in a pickup truck parked at a nature reserve named after a fallen fighter of the militant Hezbollah group. They took two large eucalyptus tree seedlings out of the truck and planted them.
The men are from Green Without Borders, a non-governmental organization that says it aims to protect Lebanon’s green areas and plant trees.
But Israel, the United States and some in Lebanon accuse the NGO of being an arm of Hezbollah to hide its military activities. They say the organization has been setting up outposts for the militant group along the border with Israel. Last month, residents in the southern Christian village of Rmaych near the border said they encountered armed men at an outpost of the organization that was blocking them from farmlands. (…)
Residents in border Shiite villages that support Hezbollah praise the organization. It “is doing good for the environment and planting trees along the border. We are very happy with their work,” said Salah Rammal, a shop owner in the border village of Odaisseh.
Residents of the Christian village Rmaych, however, have complained for years about a position set up by Green Without Borders on farmland belonging to village families in a nearby valley. They say the organization did not plant any trees there and actually chopped down trees and cut a 1.5-kilometer (1-mile) dirt road on their land.
Hezbollah, which receives massive funding and weapons supply from Iran, carries out terrorist activities across the globe. The Shia Islamic terrorist group was behind the 1983 Beirut suicide bombings aimed at the American and multinational forces that killed 299 people, including 240 U.S marines and 58 French soldiers.