Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has said that Hizbullah was refraining from attacking the Jewish State because it feared a "disproportionate" Israeli response.
During the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting on Monday, Olmert also said that Hizbullah would likely not avenge what he called the "disappearance" of the Shiite group”s top commander, Imad Mughniyeh, because Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah had "lost confidence" in his ability to weigh an Israeli response.
"They fear a disproportionate Israeli response," Olmert said.
Mughniyeh was killed last February in a car bomb in Damascus. Hizbullah has blamed the Jewish state for the Killing.
Olmert also told the committee that Hizbullah was rearming.
"We are keeping a close watch," he said.