| Likud party chief Binyamin Netanyahu, who was soon to replace Peres as prime minister, demanded that Hezbollah be "dismantled," and his two top lieutenants, Ariel Sharon and Rafael Eitan, called for Israel to expand its occupation zone in Lebanon north to the Litani River. Many of those who remain were at least pushed--more or less--out of the area south of the Litani, at least temporarily. In a televised interview on August 27, Nasrallah said that Hezbollah had "committed" not to show any military manifestation of the group south of the Litani River. |
