Lebanese News and Updates

UAE’s Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed calls Iran “terrorists”, while out at former French Ambassador to Washington, Gérard Araud, for criticizing the UAE’s growing dependence on the United States for its security.

American officials tell allies that the US will probably be forced to launch a ground operation to capture Iran's Kharg Island, according to two sources familiar with the matter - I24 News

🗣 MP Mark Daou: I should expect that today there be hundreds of Hezbullah members in prison, those working in security or the military. That way, we'll go into negotiations [with Israel] and tell them we're capable of controlling Lebanese territory.

🗣 MP Nadim Gemayel: If we want to live with the Israelis and have secure borders with them, no one should interfere in each other's borders or affairs, and we should at least return to the Armistice Agreement.

MP Mark Dao: "I demand that the Lebanese army disarm and dismantle this organization [Hezbullah], because if it doesn't, the Israelis will invade, and the Syrians will become emboldened...and everyone will have to go and protect themselves"

MP Nadim Gemayel: "Those fighting in southern Lebanon are not Lebanese. The problem isn't between Lebanon and Israel!"

🗣 Interviewer: A party that liberated the land in the past, why can't it liberate it now? Lebanese Forces party [LF] member Wahbi Qatisha: "I'm a soldier and an officer... I was in the South and I know... The Israelis wanted to leave a long time ago. They wondered what are we were doing here, so they withdrew."

❗️The Lebanese state started to formulate a civilian delegation to meet Israeli officials in direct peace negotiations The delegation is expected to include a Shia, to add a sense of "representation"

📸 The aftermath 📰 Phosphorus shelling also took place today on the Al-Khariba area and the outskirts of Al-Mari

From the phosphorus attacks on Khiyam town

From the video of the attack on the Shayetet 13 headquarters in Haifa Hezbullah'S missiles' warheads had the numbers 635 and 457. If these numbers are indeed sequential, then they likely represent the pre-2023 stocks.

Trump on Iran: You’ll soon find out what will happen with the ultimatum on the power stations – the result will be very good. There will be a total destruction of Iran, and it’s going to work out great. Source: Israeli Channel 13