The Israeli website Vala announced Friday that the Israeli army is preparing to counter Hezbollah’s response to work at the Krish gas field.
The website reports that the Israeli army is preparing for various scenarios in which a gas extraction and storage vessel enters its field of work in the disputed area between Lebanon and Israel in the Mediterranean Sea.
The website quoted Israeli military officials as saying that the Israeli army had not yet deployed enough troops around the gas platform and the presence of the ship. Throw the platform. To target it
Israeli military officials explained that the process of securing the new ship around the Kerish gas field is a very complex event and requires military and diplomatic thinking, and called on the Israeli army to prepare quickly for any possible confrontation with Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Lebanese Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah described the deployment of an Israeli ship to extract and store gas from his field as an “attack on Lebanon.”
“Sending a ship by Israel to extract and store gas from its field is an attack on Lebanon, and the issue of maritime borders must become a major national issue to secure vast wealth,” Nasrallah said in a televised speech Thursday. “It belongs to the Lebanese people.”
He continued: “There are US and Israeli efforts to destroy a large area of Lebanon’s maritime borders and to prevent drilling and extraction of Beirut from it.”
He stressed that the Lebanese resistance is able to prevent Israel from extracting oil and gas from its field of work located in the disputed maritime border region between the two countries.
“Choosing an enemy war will have existential consequences,” he said, noting that there were popular demands from the Lebanese resistance to intervene to deter Israel.
“The resistance does not want or fear war, but it will not give up and all its options are open and on the table,” he stressed.
Earlier, Lebanese President Michel Aoun and caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati warned Israel against any “aggressive action” in the disputed waters, where the two countries hope to develop maritime energy resources, raising concerns about escalating violence. Around the ship rose.
Israeli Defense Minister Bani Gantz said last Wednesday that the crushing platform in the Mediterranean Sea is one of the strategic assets of the Israeli government.
“Identifying gas-based energy sources can help the Lebanese economy and its citizens a lot, and it is in Lebanon’s interest to move the dialogue on this issue, and we hope that will happen,” Gantz added.
Identifying gas-based energy sources can help the Lebanese economy and its citizens a lot, and it is in Lebanon’s interest to have a dialogue on this issue, and I hope that will happen.
– גנץ גנץ – Bani Gantz (@gantzbe) June 8, 2022
The Israeli Defense Minister stressed that his country will work to protect its strategic assets and is ready to protect them and defend its infrastructure and anything that is compatible with its rights.
Gantz called for speeding up negotiations on the maritime border, noting that the “Krish” platform is located on Israeli soil, a kilometer south of the US-mediated region negotiating between his country and Lebanon.
Source: Lebanon Debate
