09.03.2008, 18:05
Zitat:Intelligence agencies were to paint a bleak picture of threats facing Israel in an annual assessment on Sunday that comes on the heels of the deadliest Palestinian attack in Jerusalem in four years.
"The intelligence will paint a bleak picture of the strategic threats surrounding Israel," a senior Israeli official told AFP ahead of the report to be presented at the weekly cabinet meeting by the Aman military intelligence, domestic security service Shin Beth and the Mossad spy agency.
A defence ministry official said the report will say that arch foe Iran is operating through the Shiite Muslim Hezbollah group in Lebanon and the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas, in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
"Iran's presence and threat is felt both in Lebanon, Gaza and the West Bank" through its proxies, the official told AFP on condition of anonymity.
"We'll also hear about Hezbollah's rearmament and the threat it poses along Israel's northern border," he said, referring to Israeli claims that the Shiite militant group has been smuggling in weaponry from Syria since the 34-day war it fought with Israel in 2006.
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