Cautious calm prevails on the Lebanese-Israeli border, which is interrupted from time to time by Israeli spy planes, specifically in the western sector, after the firing of dozens of missiles from Lebanon into northern Israel today (Thursday) that injured Israeli settlers, and called for an immediate Israeli response before a meeting leaders of its security services, so it fired 20 missiles towards Lebanon.
Fifteen rockets were launched from 3 Lebanese regions towards the border with Israel, and the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation soon announced that they came from the Palestinian factions as a response to the attacks and oppression of worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque, noting that no faction has yet adopted this operation.
Sources in the Fatah movement said that the prominent Palestinian factions had nothing to do with the rocket fire, which took place from places far from the camps.
In turn, the international security forces operating in the south (UNIFIL) opened an investigation in cooperation and coordination with the Lebanese army, describing the current situation as "very dangerous", and calling on all parties to take measures to reduce escalation.
While Israeli security sources confirmed that there is no intention of war with Lebanon, but a response will be made to these events, and the Israeli army has prior plans to deal with such incidents.
And while waiting for any official Lebanese position to be issued after its sovereignty was violated and implicated in a security action that may have dire consequences, the head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, tweeted, saying: “Commenting on the events in the south this afternoon, I address the Lebanese government with the following questions: First: What are the national imperatives that necessitate at this very moment the firing of dozens of rockets from southern Lebanon towards Israel? Second: What will be the Lebanese government's reaction to its commitments to abide by the provisions of Resolution 1701? Third: What if a single pane of glass was shattered in the house of a Lebanese citizen in the south as a result of the exchange of missiles and artillery bombardment? Where will the Lebanese government get the necessary funds to repair it?
This is in addition to the basic, pivotal and urgent question: Did the Lebanese government meet or take the decision to launch missiles from the south towards Israel?
Geagea added, “The Lebanese government, even if it was a caretaker government like all the governments that preceded it in recent times, by abandoning the strategic decision of the state in favor of the axis of resistance, it would have abandoned its main responsibility to preserve the security of the homeland and the citizen. A presidential candidate who does not undertake to return the entire strategic decision to the Lebanese state cannot be neither a candidate nor a president.
Rawiya Hashmi (Beirut) @HechmiRawiya
