The pressure is mounting on Hezbollah, as the deadline it was given to consider handing over its weapons to the state is nearing expiration. Officials are awaiting its comments on the response they plan to deliver to U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack, who is expected in Beirut on Monday.Hezbollah has clearly received the message and, while declaring itself open to all possibilities, decided to pose its own questions to the Lebanese authorities.The party said that it finds the Lebanese response entirely acceptable, as it is based on a demand that Israel uphold its side of the Nov. 27 agreement, that is, to withdraw from the five positions it occupied during the two-month war preceding the deal and to halt the repeated attacks against Lebanon, which now total more than 3,700 strikes over nearly seven months. In the news Israel escalates strikes...
The pressure is mounting on Hezbollah, as the deadline it was given to consider handing over its weapons to the state is nearing expiration. Officials are awaiting its comments on the response they plan to deliver to U.S. envoy Thomas Barrack, who is expected in Beirut on Monday.Hezbollah has clearly received the message and, while declaring itself open to all possibilities, decided to pose its own questions to the Lebanese authorities.The party said that it finds the Lebanese response entirely acceptable, as it is based on a demand that Israel uphold its side of the Nov. 27 agreement, that is, to withdraw from the five positions it occupied during the two-month war preceding the deal and to halt the repeated attacks against Lebanon, which now total more than 3,700 strikes over nearly seven months. In the news Israel escalates...