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”.
A Latin American diplomatic source revealed to the Saudi news channel Al-Hadath that Hezbollah has recently relocated approximately 400 of its regional commanders, along with their families, to several countries across South America — including Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, and Ecuador.
Israel has proposed a 45-day truce in Gaza to allow hostage releases and potentially begin indirect talks to end the war, while Hamas, which has already rejected one of its conditions - that it lay down its arms, says it is studying the plan.
Lebanese officials hope to meet international bondholders to talk about restructuring debt in the next 12 months but are not planning any meetings at the World Bank/IMF Spring meetings next week, finance minister Yassin Jaber said on Tuesday.
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