Israel-Lebanon Border Tensions: Israel’s Message to Hezbollah and Escalation Concerns

2023-07-12 21:46:29

Israel to “Hezbollah” following targeting Lebanese at the border fence: We do not want an escalation

On Wednesday evening, the Israeli occupation state sent a message to the Lebanese “Hezbollah”, stating that it does not want an escalation, but “will not allow the border fence to be violated or crossed.”

This came, according to what was reported by the official Israeli channel, “Kan”, a few hours following an explosion targeted several people at the “border fence with Lebanon.”

According to the Hebrew channel: “After a tense day on the northern border, Israel sent a message to Hezbollah this evening (Wednesday) stating: We do not want an escalation, but we will not allow damage to the fence or its crossing.”

The channel did not clarify the mediator through which Israel conveyed its message to “Hezbollah”, but it said that the American mediator Amos Hochstein, who led efforts that resulted in the signing of the maritime border demarcation agreement in October 2022, “is working once more between Israel and Lebanon, this time.” This time on the issue of land borders.

And “Kan” added: “According to estimates, in the incident in which Hezbollah members tried to hit the fence, it was decided to use non-lethal weapons in order not to exacerbate the situation,” according to “Anatolia”.

Earlier on Wednesday evening, Israeli occupation minister Yoav Gallant, who left to visit Azerbaijan, said: “We deterred Hezbollah operatives on the border with Lebanon with non-lethal means.”

On Wednesday, the occupation army threw a bomb at a number of people, who it said tried to attack the border fence with Lebanon, amid talk in the Lebanese media regarding 3 injuries.

The occupation army said: “A number of suspects approached the security fence on the border with Lebanon and tried to attack the security barrier area.” He added, “The army forces monitored them directly and used means to remove them,” noting that “the identity of the suspects is unknown.”

In his comment, the Secretary General of Hezbollah said, Hassan NasrallahIn a speech he had on Wednesday evening, he said that today’s incident on the Lebanese southern border with occupied Palestine “is still under investigation, and following that the necessary thing will be built on,” stressing that “the land of the Roma will not be left to the Israeli, and likewise Shebaa farms and the hills of Kfarshouba.

The Lebanese border area with the occupied Palestinian territories is witnessing an escalation in tension.

On Tuesday, Lebanon announced that it had submitted a complaint to the United Nations once morest the Israeli occupation state, on the grounds of “consecrating” its occupation of the Lebanese part of the border town of “Ghajar”. While the occupying power protested once morest the establishment of “Hezbollah” last June a tent on the “border” and demanded its removal.

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