“Hezbollah will strike Israel before Iran”

Hezbollah is reportedly preparing to attack Israel regardless of Iran’s plans, according to sources quoted by the newspaper. CNN.

A source close to the intelligence services told the American network that Hezbollah, based in Lebanon, is moving faster than Iran in its planning, and is trying to strike Israel in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Iran appears to still be working out how to respond, officials told CNN. A US military official said Iran has made some, but not all, of the preparations the US would expect to see before a major attack on Israel.

According to sources cited by CNN, given Lebanon’s proximity to Israel, Hezbollah could act without any warning.

At this time, it is not entirely clear whether Iran and Hezbollah are trying to coordinate a potential attack. According to CNN sources, Iran and Hezbollah may not be in complete agreement on how to proceed.

The coming attacks would be in response to Israel, whose airstrike killed Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, last week in Lebanon. A day later, Hamas’s political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, was assassinated in Tehran, his death blamed on an Israeli attack. Israel has neither officially denied nor confirmed any involvement in Haniyeh’s killing.

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Exchanging threats and prolonging the suffering

The balance in the Middle East remains on a tightrope. Israel warned yesterday that it would eliminate the new leader of Hamas, Yahya Shinwar, after Israeli authorities accused him of being among the masterminds of the unprecedented raid on southern Israel in October that sparked this war.

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As all mediation efforts have failed so far, the war threatens to spread throughout the Middle East. Iran And its allies, and on the other hand Israel and its allies, especially the United States of America.

The diplomatic marathon to de-escalate

As the threat of war escalates, the international community is looking for ways to appease and resume indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas in order to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, which will be accompanied by the release of Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli prisons.

Diplomatic contacts have increased, especially between the mediating countries in the indirect negotiations (Qatar, Egypt, the United States). The spokesman for the US National Security Council, John Kirby, said yesterday: “We believe that we have never been this close” to concluding a ceasefire agreement.

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