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Hizbullah Turning Syria Villages on Israel Border into Fortresses
(Ha'aretz) Amos Harel - A year ago, to keep an Iranian presence away from Israel's border with Syria on the Golan Heights, the Russians spoke about a demilitarized zone of 70 or 80 km. Yet when Israel came to complain to the Russians about the Hizbullah presence on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, they were told that the promises concerned only the Iranians themselves and not their agents. Hizbullah operations in the villages on the Golan have intensified. Hizbullah is working hard to turn these villages into fortified military compounds, as it has done since 2006 in the Shi'ite villages in southern Lebanon.