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Is Lebanon safe from escalation in the region?

None of the stakeholders seem ready for a full-scale conflict, according to several observers. Will Lebanon once again be swept up in the region’s conflicts?

Is Lebanon safe from escalation in the region?

Palestinians gather at the scene where senior commander of Islamic Jihad militant group Khaled Mansour was killed in Israeli strikes, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, Aug. 7, 2022. (Credit: Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters)

Several days after the launch of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, targeting the armed group Islamic Jihad — a movement sponsored by Tehran and like Lebanon’s Hezbollah, closely linked to Iranian policy in the region — this question is on everyone’s lips.All the more so since this new round of violence — the worst since the last Israeli aggression on the coastal enclave in May 2012 — comes at a time of heightened tension between Hezbollah and Israel, particularly since the arrival of a gas rig in the Karish border field off the coast of Israel in early June.Iran has not failed to threaten to put Hezbollah, its Lebanese armed wing, at the forefront of any military confrontation.The head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami said that “100,000 missiles are ready in Lebanon to create hell” in...
Several days after the launch of the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, targeting the armed group Islamic Jihad — a movement sponsored by Tehran and like Lebanon’s Hezbollah, closely linked to Iranian policy in the region — this question is on everyone’s lips.All the more so since this new round of violence — the worst since the last Israeli aggression on the coastal enclave in May 2012 — comes at a time of heightened tension between Hezbollah and Israel, particularly since the arrival of a gas rig in the Karish border field off the coast of Israel in early June.Iran has not failed to threaten to put Hezbollah, its Lebanese armed wing, at the forefront of any military confrontation.The head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Hossein Salami said that “100,000 missiles are ready in Lebanon to create...
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