UPDATED: 4 HEZBOLLAH BOMBS UNCOVERED ON ISRAEL'S NORTHERN BORDER

Defense sources: Border bombs show IDF negligence (JPost)
Senior defense officials said that the planting of bombs along the northern border was a severe and dangerous incident which proved that UNIFIL and the IDF were not effectively doing their job in preventing Hizbullah from returning to the border and carrying out attacks against Israel.

The northern command assessed that the bombs found on Monday on the border between Israel and Lebanon were planted several days ago.

Soldiers in the army's Engineering Battalion 630 under the command of Lt.-Col. Eran Pauker discovered one of the explosive devices during a routine patrol along the border. The four bombs - between 15 to 20 kilograms each - were discovered nine meters over the blue line, the international border between Israel and Lebanon.

The soldiers did not cross the border, but instead detonated them from a distance. IDF sources in the northern command described the incident as "an operational success," claiming that in the past it had sometimes taken the IDF months to discover Hizbullah bombs and bunkers along the border.

Pauker said that the bombs were most probably planted to be used in an attack against IDF units that patrolled the border near Avivim. He said it was possible that Hizbullah intended to use the bombs as part of a larger-scale kidnapping attack similar to the July 12 abduction of reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser that sparked the war this past summer.

According to Pauker, the IDF was operating under the assumption that Hizbullah had succeeded in planting additional bombs along the Israeli-Lebanese border. He estimated that the stormy weather and fog served as cover for Hizbullah terrorists when planting the four bombs along the border several days ago.

UPDATE: IDF: UNIFIL enabled Hizbullah to plant border bombs (JPost)
Defense officials slammed UNIFIL and the Lebanese government Monday night, claiming that their "slackness" was what enabled Hizbullah to plant five deadly explosive devices along the border between Israel and Lebanon. IDF officials said it was possible that the bombs were planted as part of a planned kidnapping attack similar to the July 12 abduction of reservists Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser that sparked the war this past summer.

Defense Minister Amir Peretz transmitted a harsh-worded message to UNIFIL command in Lebanon and urged the peacekeeping force to crack down on Hizbullah and prevent the guerrilla group from returning to the border and carrying out attacks against Israel.

The Northern Command assessed that the bombs found on Monday, just north of Avivim and right along the Blue Line international border between Israel and Lebanon, were planted there only a few days ago by Hizbullah.

FUNNY, I DON'T HEAR THE MEDIA OBJECTING TO (LET ALONE POINTING OUT) HEZBOLLAH'S FLAGRANT VIOLATION OF THEIR CEASE-FIRE WITH ISRAEL.