نتنياهو: أنصح نصرالله وسليماني بمراقبة أفعالهما
دبي – العربية.نت/27 آب/2019
لبنان يتواصل مع “أطراف مؤثرة” لتفادي التصعيد من إسرائيل
دبي – قناة العربية/27 آب/2019
لبنان يحبس أنفاسه.. وإيران تتوعد إسرائيل عبر حزب الله
المصدر: دبي – العربية.نت/27 آب/2019
Israel quietly warns Beirut: Powerful response would greet an attack on Golan or Galilee
DEBKAfile/ August 27/ 2019
Netanyahu warns Hezbollah, Iran, Lebanon leaders: ‘Watch your actions’
AFP, Jerusalem/Tuesday, 27 August 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday warned Lebanon, Hezbollah’s chief and the head of Iran’s Quds Force to “be careful” with their words and actions. Addressing Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Netanyahu told a conference that “he knows very well that the state of Israel knows how to defend itself well, and to repay its enemies.”“I want to say to him and the Lebanese state, which is hosting this organization that aims to destroy us, and I say the same to Qassem Soleimani: Be careful about your words, and even more cautious about your actions.”He suggested that Nasrallah “calm down.” Netanyahu spoke after a series of incidents in recent days that have raised tensions between Israel, Lebanon, Iran and Tehran-backed Hezbollah. Nasrallah has accused Israel of being behind a drone attack on the Lebanese movement’s Beirut stronghold on Sunday and threatened retaliation. He called it the first such “hostile action” since a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah. Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun called it a “declaration of war.” Hours before the Beirut incident, Israel announced it had carried out a strike in neighboring Syria to thwart what it said was a plan by an Iranian force to attack its territory with drones. On Monday, a pro-Syrian Palestinian group accused Israel of carrying out a drone attack on one of its positions in Lebanon. Israel has carried out hundreds of strikes in Syria targeting what it says are Iranian and Hezbollah targets. Iran and Hezbollah, along with Russia, have backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his country’s civil war. Netanyahu has pledged to stop Israel’s arch-enemy Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria.
Israel quietly warns Beirut: Powerful response would greet an attack on Golan or Galilee
DEBKAfile/ August 27/ 2019
Jerusalem conveyed tough back-channel warnings to Beirut on Monday, Aug. 26, that any attacks on the Golan or Galilee would bring forth a powerful Israeli counter punch. It was delivered to Hizballah’s Hassan Nasrallah and Lebanon’s military commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Aoun, DEBKAfile’s exclusive military and intelligence sources disclose, by UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Stefano Del Col. This step was taken on in an effort to prevent the cycle of tension surrounding Israel’s preemptive weekend operations in Lebanon and Syria from veering out of control. On Monday, Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Monday described Israeli attacks on Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahya and the eastern border region as a “declaration of war.” He said: “We are entitled to resort to our right to defend our sovereignty, independence and territorial integrity.”In a series of back-door diplomatic responses on Monday, Israel informed Nasrallah that so long as Hizballah waged war on Israel from Syrian soil, his followers would share the same fate as the IDF has meted out in hundreds of operations to Iranian and other proxy forces.
The message to the Lebanese commander pointed out that in another round of hostilities, Israel would have no option but to wipe out Hizballah’s vast rocket arsenal, inevitably causing “massive damage to Lebanon.”Israel’s warnings to Lebanon were accompanied by corresponding Trump administration diplomacy in Beirut. US Ambassador to Beirut, Elizabeth Richard, in an urgent face-to-face meeting with President Aoun called after he accused Israel of a declaration of war issued a warning. She cautioned him that if he persisted in his support of Hizballah and its leader, Washington would conduct “a reassessment” of its annual military aid program for the Lebanese army. Syrian President Bashar Assad, for his part, has kept on insisting that he knew nothing about the Akraba base set up by Al Qods and Hizballah south of Damascus for holding armed Iranian drones ready to attack Israel. They were primed for launching when they were destroyed by the Israeli air force on Saturday night.
Assad accordingly issued a new directive banning the launching of missiles against Israel from Syrian territory. DEBKAfile’s sources note, however, that, typical of the Syria leader, this ban did not mention other anti-Israel operations such as intrusions by ground forces or UAV attacks. The flurry of secret diplomacy took place amid high military tension in northern Israel, where IDF forces, on a state of readiness on the Syrian and Lebanese borders since Saturday, were boosted by a large influx of armored and artillery units. The Lebanese news agency reported early Tuesday that the contested Shaaba Farms pocket was brilliantly illuminated overnight by IDF contingents and explosions were heard from this lofty enclave that sits on the junction of the Israeli, Syrian and Lebanese borders.