Five Hezbollah terrorists were killed in IDF strikes in the last day, including Hassan Salah, the commander of the organization’s Mount Dov sector, Sky News in Arabic reported on Friday.
Shebaa Farms is at the base of Mount Hermon
Five Hezbollah terrorists were killed in IDF (Israel Defense Forces) strikes in the last day, including Hassan Salah, the commander of the organization’s Mount Dov sector (Shebaa Farms), Sky News in Arabic reported on Friday.
According to the report, Salah was also a "prominent missile expert," with a rank equivalent to a brigade commander.
The Shebaa Farms area has been disputed since 1916 between Syria and Lebanon.
The Sykes-Picot Agreement that drew the borders of the middle was not precise enough because of the width of the pencil, and therefore, until today, there are those who claim the area belongs to Lebanon, and not Syria.
This dispute allows Hezbollah to operate there. The organization is depicted to the international community as fighting to liberate Lebanese territory. Within Lebanon, this allows it to strengthen its standing as the protector of the interests of Lebanon and all its citizens.
A call by the U.S. and France for a 21-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah "is still on the table," said the top U.N. official in Lebanon on Wednesday as she pushed for a way to enforce a U.N. Security Council resolution violated for years by both sides.
France will hold an international ministerial conference over the crisis in Lebanon on Oct. 24 that will focus on the political situation there and humanitarian aid amid an escalation between Israel and Hezbollah, the foreign ministry said.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati stated on Wednesday that "Arab and international" efforts to pressure Israel into a "specific duration ceasefire" in Lebanon are ongoing, lamenting what he called Israel's "intransigence."
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