2023-12-07 20:52:52
Abbas Ibrahim, December 4, 2023, in Beirut. DIEGO IBARRA SANCHEZ FOR “THE WORLD”
Diplomatic efforts led by France and the United States to prevent the opening of a second front between Hezbollah and Israel in response to the war in Gaza are intensifying. Their emissaries are working to find an agreement between Lebanon and Israel aimed at reestablishing a way of life at the border, while the Jewish state is increasing its warnings. “We will restore security to the population through an international political arrangement aimed at pushing Hezbollah beyond Litani, based on UN Resolution 1701. If this arrangement fails, Israel will act militarily to push Hezbollah from the border.”threatened again, Wednesday December 7, the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yoav Gallant.
“Anyone who seeks to amend the scope of Resolution 1701 risks pushing us into war”replies Lebanese general Abbas Ibrahim, met by The world, in Beirut. Aged 64, former director of general security, the main intelligence service of the country of cedar, between July 2011 and his retirement in March, he supervised this ultra-sensitive file and served as point of contact between Westerners and Hezbollah.
The party of God has, in reality, never implemented the resolution passed in the United Nations Security Council at the end of the 2006 war, which calls for the withdrawal of its fighters beyond the Litani River, at twenty-five kilometers north of the dividing line with Israel. But the Jewish state tolerated this state of affairs as long as Hezbollah fighters did not show up and calm prevailed on the border.
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The withdrawal of the Radwan force
The status quo having been broken on October 8, the day after the Hamas attack and the start of skirmishes on the Lebanese-Israeli border, the Hebrew State is now demanding the full application of “1701” through the establishment of a zone buffer in southern Lebanon and the withdrawal of Hezbollah’s elite unit, the Radwan force. Hezbollah rejects this, considering this predominantly Shiite area its stronghold.
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“No one will accept. The Lebanese fought for years to free their lands (from the Israeli occupation) and you would like, by a resolution, to force them to withdraw from lands for which they have sacrificed so much? »says Abbas Ibrahim, close to the Shiite Hezbollah-Amal tandem, who was head of military intelligence in southern Lebanon during the redeployment of UN forces in 2006.
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