Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the UN Security Council to recognize the Hezbollah movement as a terrorist organization, the Times of Israel reported.

Netanyahu spoke ahead of the UN Security Council debate later in the day about the discovery of Hezbollah’s terror tunnels along the Israeli-Lebanese border.

“I call on all the members of the Security Council to condemn Hezbollah’s wanton acts of aggression; to designate Hezbollah in its entirety as a terrorist organization; to press for heightened sanctions against Hezbollah; to demand that Lebanon stop allowing its territory to be used as an act of aggression, and its citizens to be used as pawns; to support Israel’s right to defend itself against Iranian-inspired and Iranian-conducted aggression,” he said.