Lebanon
Once an outpost appears, the Lebanese army and UNIFIL cease visiting the location, a senior IDF source tells Channel 12.
“Lebanon, where everything’s just basically stories and old hall of mirrors and just pure insanity, has been matched finally, in the United States with a corresponding policy of just words,” said Tony Badran, research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
As the Israel Defense Forces prepare for a range of scenarios, Israeli observers assess that Hezbollah’s threats to strike offshore Israeli gas-drilling activities should be seen in a wider context.
Amos Hochstein spoke with senior Lebanese officials and looked at ways to advance negotiations with Israel amid rising tensions between Hezbollah and Israel.
Maj. (res.) Tal Beeri of the Alma Center tells JNS that “the attacking party” behind a series of reported strikes on Damascus is sending a clear message to the Bashar Assad regime.
U.S. envoy Amos Hochstein is in Lebanon for a two-day visit amid tensions over natural gas development in the eastern Mediterranean.
“They will pay the price, them and those who send them,” says head of IDF Northern Command.
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A gas production ship was sent by the Energean company to the Karish field, located west of Haifa, which Israel says is within its exclusive economic waters.
Report: The incident is the third time in the past week that the IDF and LAF have come into close contact.
“Lebanon was the Islamic empire’s first target. Over the past decade, it has fallen like a ripe fruit into Iran’s hands,” said Jacques Neriah, a special analyst for the Middle East at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
The Hezbollah-allied Free Patriotic Movement looks set to lose its position as the largest Christian party in the Lebanese parliament.
