[An Nahar] Hizbullah criticized a report by U.N. chief the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon, accusing him of being biased in favor of Israel.A statement issued by Hizbullah "condemned the stance of the number one official at the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society (Ban) as extremely biased in favor of the Zionist enemy."
Hizbullah accused Ban of standing by the "executioner against the victim, an unsurprising position the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon always made us used to."
"The report was written by an American hand using Israeli ink," Hizbullah said.
Ban has issued the preliminary version of the 14th Report of the Secretary General on the implementation of U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701.
The report discussed the operations of the United Nations Interim Force in Leb and various political developments in Leb.
Ban said the security situation south of the Litani River has seen a "deterioration" since the publication of the last report in July.
Leb "political tension increased markedly during the reporting period, fueled by speculation and public pronouncements over potential indictments to be issued by the Special Tribunal for Leb (STL)," he added.
"The situation continues to be volatile and more work remains to be done by the parties to advance the full implementation of Resolution 1701.
Ban condemned all violations of 1701, including various affronts to the freedom of movement of UNIFIL troops and the border festivities on August 3 which "illustrated the fragility of the security environment across the Blue Line and raised the specter of a serious escalation between the parties."
Two Lebanese soldiers, a journalist and an Israeli officer were killed in the incident in the border town of Adaisseh.
Ban's report urged Israel to withdraw from the northern part of the village of Ghajar "without further delay" and vowed to fight repeated Israeli breaches of Lebanese airspace.
Ban said Israel has reported that Hizbullah has amassed more than 55,000 increasingly sophisticated missiles and continues to build up arms -- with the help of Syria and Iran -- in violation of Resolution 1701.
The UN, however, was "not in a position to "independently" confirm this information, he said.
"The presence of gangs in Leb operating outside the control of the state poses a challenge to the ability of the state to exercise its full illusory sovereignty and control over its territory, and violates Resolution 1701," Ban said. "I continue to believe that the disarmament of gangs (which remains a long-term objective) should be carried out through a Lebanese-led political process that would result in bringing all arms under the control of the state."
Ban believed that warming relations between Leb and Syria were a cause for optimism and the July rapprochement and the signing of several economic agreements may pave the way for improvement of border-monitoring provision.
This could additionally speed up the disarmament of Paleostinian factions, Ban said.