“Among countless failures by the United Nations in the Middle East, UNIFIL may be the most spectacular. Tasked with ensuring that Hezbollah would not rearm after the 2006 war, it patiently watched as Hezbollah became the largest non-state terrorist and military organization in the world,” the former U.S. Ambassador during the first Trump administration, David Friedman, told Fox News Digital in June. “Stability in Lebanon — within reach only now that Israel has decapitated Hezbollah’s leadership — will not be achieved through UNIFIL.”

In October 2024, Fox News Digital reported that UNIFIL had failed to prevent Hezbollah’s rapid rocket and weapons buildup since the mandate was implemented in 2006.

Pro-Hezbollah officials and soldiers within Lebanon’s Army also remain a core problem, according to experts and media reports. In late January, a LAF chief reportedly sent a classified document to Hezbollah. The LAF‘s Suhil Bahij Gharb, who oversees military intelligence for southern Lebanon, secured the confidential material from a military facility run by the U.S., France and UNIFIL.

It remains unclear how the U.S. will vote on the resolution or whether it will seek revisions to the French-authored text.

The U.S. mission declined to comment, while the U.N. missions of Israel and France did not respond to Fox News Digital requests.

Fox News Digital’s Benjamin Weinthal contributed to this report.