UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are useless, says Israeli minister

In a post on X, Israeli cabinet member Eli Cohen calls Unifil a "useless force".

"The UN is a failed organization and Unifil is a useless force that failed to enforce Resolution 1701, failed to prevent [Hezbollah] from establishing itself in southern Lebanon," Cohen writes.

Resolution 1701 - adopted after the Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon in 2006 - called for a demilitarised zone and the disarmament of Hezbollah, among other conditions.