Hezbollah has built a network of underground bunkers in southern Lebanon and replenished its stockpile of weapons, a British newspaper reported. Citing Israeli intelligence sources, the Sunday Times reported Sunday that Hezbollah, whose front-line outposts were destroyed during the war with Israel last year, has returned and dug bunkers “under the noses” of a boosted U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon. The bunkers are generally accessed through the backyard of a Hezbollah sympathizer, and some of the secret posts are as wide as a soccer field, the newspaper reported. It further quoted Israeli intelligence as saying that the Iranian-backed militia, which had approximately 13,000 missiles before last year’s war, now has 20,000.
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