the August 2006 edition of The New Yorker, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh claimed that Israeli government officials travelled to the US in May to share plans for attacking Hizbullah. Quoting a US government consultant, Hersh said: "Earlier this summer ... several Israeli officials visited Washington, separately, 'to get a green light for the bombing operation and to find out how much the United States would bear'." Both US and Israeli officials denied the claims. Haaretz reported in March 2007 that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert testified to the Winograd Commission that several meetings regarding Hezbollah were held upon his taking office, and that in response to the likely scenario of soldiers again being abducted, he chose one of several plans of action instead of having to make a snap-judgement if and when such a scenario occurred. See also 2006 Israel-Gaza conflict International reactions to the 2006 Lebanon War Israel-Lebanon conflict Lebanese Civil War Operation Accountability Operation Grapes of Wrath Timeline of the 2006 Lebanon War UNIFIL United Nations Interim Forces in Lebanon References Battles involving Israel Battles involving Hezbollah 2006 Lebanon War