Over the past weekend, a breakthrough took place at negotiations on the demarcation of sea borders between Lebanon and Israel, on Saturday, October 8, a source in the US government, the Israeli publication Walla.
said.
According to him, the parties exchanged several drafts of the agreement in an attempt to overcome the existing gap in their positions. At the same time, the Israeli news service of the 12th television channel notes that the US administration exerts pressure on Lebanon, so that it refuses at least part of the adjustments made by it at the last moment.
Despite the fact that negotiations have moved out of the dead point, in the Israeli power structures they are preparing for a possible escalation in the north, they note “details”.
there they gave permission to a mining company to continue work in the area of the Karish field, which disputes Lebanon. Israeli power structures are afraid that Hezbollah may try to arrange a provocation, for example, launch a drone towards the gas platform, direct the combat boat to it or provoke the incident on the land border between the countries, which can lead to both a one -day escalation and a full -scale war between Lebanon and Israel. In this regard, the Israeli defense army will strengthen air and sea patrols in the field of the field and change the deployment of forces along the land border. In addition, the air defense system is widely deployed in the north of Israel.
Israel made it clear to Beirut that gas production would be carried out at all costs, even if in the end the agreement with Lebanon is not signed, the Israeli media noted.