An Israeli Cabinet minister said another war with Hezbollah could be imminent. Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, Israel’s national infrastructure minister and former defense minister, said Tuesday that the deployment of U.N. peacekeepers and the Lebanese army in former Hezbollah strongholds was no guarantee that the current quiet would hold. “I predict another war with Hezbollah within months,” Ben-Eliezer told Israel Radio.
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