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2019-09-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Senior official: Nasrallah sought ceasefire as IDF responded to Hezbollah strike
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[IsraelTimes] Israel says Lebanese PM Hariri reached out to 3 countries on behalf of Iran-backed group with message that it was not interested in further escalation.
The Lebanese government reached out to three countries on Sunday on behalf of Hezbollah in an effort to convey to Israel that it was not interested in any further escalation, as the IDF hurled some 100 shells at targets across the border in response to the terror group’s firing of anti-tank missiles at Israel, a senior defense official said Monday.
The message from Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
Continued from Page 2
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
was relayed by Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri
...Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too....
to the governments of La Belle France, Egypt and the US, the official told Israeli news hounds in a phone briefing.
"We received inquiries from Leb through three countries that implored us that there was no need to respond," he said.
The bigwig briefing news hounds said that Israel had not taken Nasrallah’s message into account in its eventual decision to hold its fire. "Nasrallah’s considerations do not bother me, as long as we advance our goals against the threats."
"The bottom line is that Hezbollah sent us messages to hold our fire," the official boasted.
The Israeli security establishment ‐ the official said ‐ believes Hariri is beginning to understand the predicament in which Hezbollah has been putting his country and "where Leb’s situation is going" if it fails to clamp down on the terror group that wields considerable influence there.
"If Hezbollah attacks, Nasrallah knows... what else awaits him," the bigwig threatened.
The official added that he had directed the military roughly five months ago to prioritize the foiling of a joint Hezbollah-Iranian project to manufacture precision-guided missiles in Leb.
According to the official, the project moved up the Israeli security establishments’s list of threats, overtaking the issue Iranian entrenchment in Syria, and was second only to Tehran’s nuclear program.
"We changed the order of our threats based on the understanding that we cannot afford [allowing] precision-guided missiles in Leb," the official explained, adding that the Islamic Theocratic Republic has began struggling in its effort to gain a foothold in Syria and has since worked to do so in Iraq, Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of...
and other neighboring countries.
"We are handling a number of fronts, some of which are not known to the media or the public," the official said.
Also Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a video statement on Sunday’s exchange of fire with Hezbollah, saying Israel "acted with determination and responsibility. We kept our citizens safe and also guarded the well-being of our soldiers."
"The man in the bunker in Beirut knows exactly why he is in a bunker," Netanyahu said of Nasrallah. "We will continue to do everything necessary to keep Israel safe ‐ at sea, on the ground and in the air ‐ and we will also continue to work against the threat of the precise missiles."
In a threat of his own, Foreign Minister Israel Katz warned on Monday that Jerusalem would strike Leb hard if the government failed to rein in Hezbollah.
After speaking on the phone with his German counterpart, Heiko Maas, Katz said he had asked Maas to convey a message to the Lebanese government: "If you don’t thwart Hezbollah’s activity against Israel, the whole of Leb will be struck, and it will be severely hurt."
Maas was said to have replied that Germany views Hezbollah in Leb "similarly" to how Israel views it, and that Berlin would consider designating it a terror group soon. There was no immediate confirmation of that statement by Germany.
Hezbollah’s deputy leader, Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, said Sunday night that the group "wants to preserve deterrence and the rules of engagement in order to prevent something worse from happening."
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