{"id":263,"date":"2008-04-19T01:20:21","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T05:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/04\/south_lebanon_who_reigns\/"},"modified":"2008-08-17T06:08:03","modified_gmt":"2008-08-17T10:08:03","slug":"south_lebanon_who_reigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/2008\/04\/south_lebanon_who_reigns\/","title":{"rendered":"South Lebanon: who reigns?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From MESH Admin<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/mesh\/files\/2008\/04\/unifilmarch2008.png\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reliefweb.int\/rw\/rwb.nsf\/(db900SID)\/SKAR-64GBFB\/picture\/0.84?OpenElement&amp;FieldElemFormat=gif\" align=\"right\" height=\"153\" width=\"200\" \/><\/a>Last week, as Israel conducted countrywide civil defense and military exercises, UNIFIL increased its patrols on the Israeli-Lebanese border.  The Beirut <em>Daily Star<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/article.asp?edition_id=1&amp;categ_id=2&amp;article_id=90741\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the Lebanese side, hundreds of UNIFIL and LAF [Lebanese army] patrols\u2014on land and in the air\u2014were met with the complete absence of Hizbullah fighters. But Hizbullah was present everywhere one looked, with banners, mock rockets, flags, and posters of &#8220;martyrs&#8221; reminding everyone who reigns down South.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click on the thumbnail image just above for the current UNIFIL deployment map (March 2008), or download a pdf version <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reliefweb.int\/rw\/fullMaps_Sa.nsf\/luFullMap\/8E0942F512B1CA83C1257424002CA5B8\/$File\/uncs_PRG_310308.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. (And there is more on Hezbollah&#8217;s war preparations <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0414\/p07s03-wome.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From MESH Admin Last week, as Israel conducted countrywide civil defense and military exercises, UNIFIL increased its patrols on the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Beirut Daily Star reported: On the Lebanese side, hundreds of UNIFIL and LAF [Lebanese army] patrols\u2014on land and in the air\u2014were met with the complete absence of Hizbullah fighters. But Hizbullah was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1620,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239,2257,1910,648],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel","category-lebanon","category-maps","category-united-nations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1620"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/mesh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}