Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea described the situation in Lebanon as “extremely mysterious” amid a deteriorating security situation in the South of the country between Israel and Hezbollah, the Arab World Press said on Friday.
Samir Geagea © Mena Today
Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea described the situation in Lebanon as “extremely mysterious” amid a deteriorating security situation in the South of the country between Israel and Hezbollah, the Arab World Press said on Friday.
In remarks published by Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, Geagea said that the “situation in Lebanon is unstable, it is open to all possibilities” since the October 7 events.
The Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7 after Hamas stormed into southern Israel.
Hezbollah has been embroiled in nearly daily exchanges of shelling with Israel across Lebanon's southern border since the Gaza war began.
The LF leader stated that the repercussions of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have reached all the way to the Red Sea shipping lanes, and to the assassination of Hamas official Saleh al-Arouri in Beirut, and the Iran explosion at a memorial in the city of Kerman on Wednesday for top commander Qassem Soleimani.
Since late October, the Houthis have launched scores of one-way attack drones and missiles at commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.
A suspected Israeli strike on Beirut killed top Hamas operative Saleh Arouri in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
On Hezbollah, Geagea said it seems that the party “does not want to engage in a war, but only wants to garner internal gains, while Iran wants to garner additional gains at the regional level”.
Hezbollah has received $200 million from Iran to help Lebanese displaced by this year’s war with Israel, two people with direct knowledge of the transfer said, the first significant aid from the group to supporters who bore the brunt of the conflict.
Saudi Arabia has launched an air accident probe following last week's cockpit stabbing on a flydubai jet, as experts examine any fallout for aviation safety alongside a separate UAE-led criminal investigation, three people close to the matter said.
A reported CIA warning that Israel faces civil war or state collapse rests on anonymous briefings, an unpublished paper, and a unit whose job is to invent uncomfortable scenarios. That is a thin basis for a claim this large.
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