The organization was founded by forces of the Iranian “Revolutionary Guard” who arrived in Lebanon during Operation Peace in the Galilee in 1982, as part of the policy of “exporting” the Islamic revolution. Up until the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon (May 2000), the organization carried out numerous attacks against IDF forces on the ground, and after the withdrawal, focused on funding, operating and directing terror infrastructures in the “territories.” Hizbullah – composed entirely of Lebanese activists with no nationalist connection to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – serves as a front-line operational arm of Iran against Israel, and implements Iranian policies in a comprehensive way, including the intensification of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and in initiating terrorist activity against Israel. The organization initially worked to infiltrate terrorists and their accomplices across border crossings using foreign documents, and to smuggle weapons and terrorists over the border. Hizbullah has focused since 2003 on establishing terror infrastructures in the “territories” and in Israel and in financing the operations of Palestinian terror groups carrying out actions against Israel. At the top of the list of organizations financed by Hizbullah are the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, identified with Fatah: Hizbullah serves as intermediary between activists in various areas. In addition to Al-Aqsa Brigades, other organizations also receive support from Hizbullah, including the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees, and even Hamas. In addition to transferring large sums of money to Palestinian terror organizations, Hizbullah elements also invest much effort in upgrading the terror capabilities of groups active in the “territories,” including: • Transferring much information regarding terror, including training materials regarding the production and use of weapons, as well as the production of makeshift explosives, explosive belts, and high-trajectory weapons. • Smuggling of high-quality weapons into the “territories”. Such smuggling includes sea routes, notably, the Santorini and Karine A ships, which were captured in January 2001 and 2002, respectively, carrying large quantities of weapons for transport, including anti-aircraft missiles, mortars, pistols and ammunition. • Military training sessions abroad for activists from the territories. Most of these take place in Lebanon. Terror cells in the “territories,” funded and directed by Hizbullah from Lebanon, have carried out a large number of terror attacks of various types during the current intifada, including mass killing attacks and suicide attacks, in which dozens of Israelis were killed and hundreds wounded. Among Hizbullah’s most notorious attacks abroad against Israeli or Jewish targets, were the explosion of the Israeli embassy in Argentina (1992) and the explosion of the Jewish community center in Buenos Aires in 1994.