Israel Stages Drill in Shebaa Farms amid High Tensions
The Israeli army was carrying out a military drill on Monday evening in the occupied Shebaa Farms, amid high tensions that started with the assassination of Hizbullah top operative Samir al-Quntar in a Syria air raid blamed on Israel.
“A series of explosions were heard in the towns of al-Orqoub during a maneuver for the Israeli enemy's army on the eastern peripheries of the occupied Shebaa Farms,” Lebanon's National News Agency reported.
It said the drill started around 9:00 pm, noting that “heavy artillery is being used.”
Tensions surged between Israel and Hizbullah in recent days after the party accused Israel's air force of carrying out a raid that killed Samir al-Quntar near Damascus.
On Sunday, Hizbullah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah reiterated his pledge that his group will retaliate to the assassination.
“The retaliation to Samir's assassination will inevitably come,” Nasrallah vowed, noting that the timing and place of the response is now in the hands of Hizbullah's fighters and military commanders.
“The Israelis are hiding like rats along the border … The Israelis are worried and they should be worried -- along the border and inside Israel. Their threats will not benefit them,” Nasrallah said.
Hizbullah played a key role in Quntar's release from prison after he had spent 30 years in Israeli jails, becoming known as the longest-serving Arab prisoner.
Shortly after his release, Quntar joined Hizbullah.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said he became "head of the Syrian Resistance for the Liberation of the Golan," a group launched two years ago by Hizbullah in the Syrian region, most of which Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.
Y.R.
29 December 2015, 10:26
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But howcome Syria never agreed a demarcation of the border, so that the international community can take seriously the claims of exactly which area is Lebanese and which is syrian. Btw, actually it might be too hasty to call pyjama.boy a traitor. I know many people in the peaceful sunni-village of Chebaa, and most of them are not interested in fighting wars over the disputed farmland. Most of them want to get on with their lives and work in peaceful manners.
29 December 2015, 12:12
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how come m14ers and zionists are immune to facts? no matter how many times it slaps them in the face, they keep coming back to their worn out propaganda tunes..
http://www.haaretz.com/un-tells-israel-place-shaba-farms-in-hands-of-unifil-1.225283
"Government officials in Jerusalem said the UN cartographer handling the matter in recent months has determined that the area is indeed Lebanese. The officials added that Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese. Therefore, the UN has said there is no reason for Israel not to relinquish control over the area."
29 December 2015, 12:20
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Again, howcome Syria refuse demarcation of the border? There is nothing in the world that I would like more than to see the farmland under lebanese control, but through peaceful demarcation and negotiations rather than more devasting wars by iranian proxies where the civilian as usual pays the price.
29 December 2015, 12:26
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again
how come m14ers and zionists are immune to facts? no matter how many times it slaps them in the face, they keep coming back to their worn out propaganda tunes..
http://www.haaretz.com/un-tells-israel-place-shaba-farms-in-hands-of-unifil-1.225283
"Government officials in Jerusalem said the UN cartographer handling the matter in recent months has determined that the area is indeed Lebanese. The officials added that Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese. Therefore, the UN has said there is no reason for Israel not to relinquish control over the area."
29 December 2015, 12:31
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maybe i'm being a bit harsh, the previous comment actually required you to be able to read an entire paragraph, which may be far beyond your abilities. so here's an excerpt, just two sentences for you to read and assimilate:
UN cartographer handling the matter in recent months has determined that the area is indeed Lebanese.
The officials added that Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese
Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese
Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese
Syria and Lebanon also agree that the area is Lebanese
29 December 2015, 12:15
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you dont get to offer your israeli friends what does not belong to you, little ziofanboy.
29 December 2015, 14:19
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1- no, it's not. cf below for indiscutable confirmation.
2- still would not be yours to give.
29 December 2015, 13:36
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hezbollah does not care about freeing shebaa... it is their pretext to justify their "resistance", nothing more....
29 December 2015, 14:19
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if you say so, since you know what everybody thinks better than they do themselves.
29 December 2015, 15:00
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if your mercenaries really wanted to liberate shebaa they would have done it... but they do not want to as it is good for their marketing business which you braindead idiot fall for....
29 December 2015, 15:22
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and hezbollah never ever tried to take over lands stolen by syria in Lebanon.... strange isn't it? only focusing on shebaa: it shows that hezbis are not interested in a sovereign Lebanon but uses shebaa as a pretext... otherwise they would claim ALL the lebanese land occupied by both syria and israel.... hypocrit hezbi you are mooowaten pretending to care about Lebanon....
29 December 2015, 15:41
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and one day you whine that hezbollah is "occupying syrian lands and villages" the next you whine that hezbollah is not doing enough to free lands from syria (what lands i wonder, but who cares eh?)
29 December 2015, 15:42
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yea, with your unfailing support they certainly could achieve anything.
29 December 2015, 15:44
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that's so you:
https://scontent-mrs1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xfp1/v/t1.0-9/1779780_1090683094307827_5102058828579870505_n.jpg?oh=badfa2cc14bb554c4a53ad29179c909d&oe=57109523
29 December 2015, 15:53
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fact is: they never tried to liberate shebaa as they do not want to... only you believe so! so practical for their propaganda...
while they do NOTHING for the lands stolen by syria: see?
no care about lebanese lands taken by syria but whine and cry for shebaa that represent FAR LESS land that the lands taken by syria!!!!!
29 December 2015, 15:25
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one example: the areas of Houwarta, Darjet Khoshin, Khirbat Daoud, and
Khorbat Unine have been occupied by Syrian peasants and soldiers who –
ignoring the protests of Lebanese villagers and officials – have erected earth berms and confiscated land....
29 December 2015, 17:20
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mowaten, there seems to be a lot of confusion on the shebaa farm-issue, so why not demarcate????
The BBC quoted Timur Goksel, then spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) as saying that "no-one disputed that the village of Shebaa itself was in Lebanon, but most of the farms fell into an undefined area that may be either in Lebanon or Syria" and although the UN was not a "boundary marking authority [...] on all maps the UN has been able to find, the farms are seen on the Syrian side [of the border]."
29 December 2015, 17:25
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On a fact-finding visit to the region, Terje Rød-Larsen, the UN special envoy to the Middle East, noted that both 1923 Anglo-French maps and the 1949 Armistice agreement place the area in Syria.
29 December 2015, 17:31
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In a book published in 1988, Moshe Braver, an Israeli geographer, mentions two French maps published in 1932 and 1946, the former shows the farm area as being part of Lebanon while the latter shows the area as a Syrian territory.
As everyone can see, a lot of confusion here. And be honest, Mowaten, you the iranian proxy militia REALLY be happy if a demarcation took place and a peaceful handover from the Israeli government to the Lebanese government took place? Come on, be honest...
