Hezbollah airs footage of Karish barges, warns Israel against 'wasting time'
Hezbollah on Sunday aired drone footage of Israeli ships in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting the tension at the center of U.S.-mediated maritime border talks between Lebanon and Israel.
The footage was aired as the U.S. energy envoy, Amos Hochstein, was landing in Beirut to mediate ongoing talks between Lebanon and Israel over their sea borders. Lebanon claims the Karish gas field is disputed territory under ongoing maritime border negotiations, whereas Israel says it lies within its internationally recognized economic waters.
Caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib in a statement Friday said Hochstein will inform Lebanon of Israel's response to Lebanon's June proposal, adding that he was optimistic about reaching an agreement soon.
There was no immediate response to the video from Israel.
The footage aired on the group's al-Manar television showed barges in the Karish gas field and their coordinates. It ended with footage of a rocket with the words "within range" in Arabic and Hebrew.
The video also contained a phrase previously voiced by Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warning that "wasting time is not beneficial."
The Israeli military earlier this month shot down three Hezbollah unarmed drones flying over Karish the gas field in the Mediterranean Sea. caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati criticized Hezbollah at the time, saying the move could pose risks to the country.
Nasrallah in an interview last week said that the group can locate and strike Karish and any other Israeli gas field.
Following his last visit in June, Hochstein told U.S.-funded Al-Hurra television that the Lebanese government took "a very strong step forward" by presenting a more united approach, and anticipated that there could be progress to reach a settlement.
Lebanon and Israel, which have been officially at war since Israel's creation in 1948, both claim some 860 square kilometers of the Mediterranean Sea. Lebanon hopes to exploit offshore gas reserves as it grapples with the worst economic crisis in its modern history.
31 July 2022, 14:41
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That’s what we’re dealing with today
propaganda (n.)
1718, "committee of cardinals in charge of foreign missions of the Catholic Church," short for Congregatio de Propaganda Fide "congregation for propagating the faith," a committee of cardinals established 1622 by Gregory XV to supervise foreign missions. The word is properly the ablative fem. gerundive of Latin propagare "set forward, extend, spread, increase".
Hence, "any movement or organization to propagate some practice or ideology" (1790). The modern political sense ("dissemination of information intended to promote a political point of view") dates from World War I, not originally pejorative and implying bias or deliberate misleading. Meaning "material or information propagated to advance a cause, etc." is from 1929.
31 July 2022, 14:46
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God bless our Shia resistance aka Hezbollah for airing footage taken by the Mahdi Solar Powered (MSP) drones of the enemy's ships in the disputed gas field. Our Shia resistance mathematicians and aeronautical engineers have once again demonstrated their class act abilities to track, record, and publish every move of enemy ships. By publishing the x and y axis values and coordinates of these ships, our Shia resistance have planted fear and confusion in the hearts and souls of the enemy's elite military command.
The Israeli enemy rushed their U.S mediator to cater for our Shia resistance demands before it is too late.
Shia Shea Shia !!!
31 July 2022, 14:58
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"our Shia resistance have planted fear and confusion in the hearts and souls of the enemy's elite military command."
This sounds like what a North Korean TV anchor on steroids would say lmao.
31 July 2022, 16:37
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Trying to take advantage of a nearly done negotiations, to make it look like it was THEY who made this happen. LOL, no one buys that except their blind followers. Anyway, the coordinates of any vessel/oilrig around the world can be found on vesselfinder.com Don`t need "Hezbollah intelligence" to find that that.
31 July 2022, 16:41
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I guess I planted more "fear and confusion in the hearts and souls of the Israelis" now...LOL
31 July 2022, 17:53
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Let's just to the chase. The Hizbos want war. They live for war. Nothing else matters. Their fanatic sponsors in Tehran want war.
