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Lebanon pressed on ceasefire, Hezbollah won't bow to 'intimidation'
2024-04-27
[An Nahar] Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has revealed that he has "received major warnings from the Europeans and Arabs" regarding the Israel-Hezbollah clashes, a media report said on Thursday.

U.S. mediator Amos Hochstein has also told him in their latest phone call that "there is a need to cease fire in the south and not wait for the course of the war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
Strip," al-Akhbar newspaper reported.

Hezbollah has meanwhile informed Mikati and other Lebanese officials that "the threats -- regardless whether they are serious or a repetition of the intimidation campaign -- will change nothing in the decision to maintain the military support for Gaza."

Informed sources also told al-Akhbar that "the intimidation comes amid the Israeli enemy’s preparations to enter Rafah with a full US cover for an assault that might last for more than six weeks."

"It needs to halt the war of attrition on the northern front amid its inability to open two fronts at the same time," the sources added.
Related:
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Najib Mikati 02/23/2024 Lebanon receives official border solution paper from Paris

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Posted by:Fred

#1  How about 500 pound bombs?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2024-04-27 15:03  

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