Hezbollah “considers all response options” in case Israel begins to extract gas in the Karish deposit, some of which Lebanon considers controversial, said the Hezbollah Secretary Hassan Navella.
“We are not afraid of war. And we do not intend to look at how Israel invades Lebanese territory to download Lebanese gas. Israel must stop all activities in the disputed territory, and the Greek company owned by the ship serving the gas prison, I must immediately withdraw it back. We understand that the price of war for Lebanon can be very great. But Israel will pay more expensive. For it, the price of the war may be truly existential, ”the“ details ”quotes.
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This statement was made after the floating oil producing platform was relocated to a new place, 80 kilometers west of Haifa. The publication notes that the point from where the gas will download is not included in the disputed territory even in the Lebanese version, which was immediately brought to the Lebanese side.
The Deputy Secretary General of Hezbollah, to Nam Kassem, told Reuters that his organization is ready to start military operations against the drilling rig, as soon as the Lebanese government makes such a decision. Representatives of the US State Department said they were “very concerned.”
Earlier, Israeli Minister of Defense Beni Ganz and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said: “Carish drilling plant is a strategic object of Israel, which is intended for the extraction of energy and natural gas in Israeli territorial waters for the development of the country’s green economy, and Israel is ready to be ready Protect “.