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2026-02-18 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
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Hezbollah rejects Lebanese government’s four-month plan for phase 2 of disarmament
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[IsraelTimes] Hezbollah lawmaker says terror group ‘cannot be lenient’ on matter after its leader decries ‘major mistake’ that ‘serves the goals of Israeli aggression’
The Iran-backed Hezbollah terror group rejected on Tuesday the Lebanese government’s decision to grant the army at least four months to advance the second phase of a nationwide disarmament plan, saying it would not accept what it sees as a move serving Israel.
Leb
...The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozen flavors of Christians, plus Armenians, Georgians, and who knows what else?...
’s government last year committed to disarming Hezbollah, which was badly weakened in a recent war with Israel, and tasked the army with drawing up a plan to do so.
The military announced last month that it had completed the first phase of the plan, covering the area between the Litani River and the Israeli border, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) farther south.
The second phase concerns the area between the Litani and the Awali rivers, around 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of Beirut.
Lebanon’s Information Minister Paul Morcos said during a presser late on Monday after a cabinet meeting that the government had taken note of the army’s monthly report on its arms control plan that includes restricting weapons in areas north of the Litani River up to the Awali River in Sidon, and granted it four months.
"The required time frame is four months, renewable depending on available capabilities, Israeli attacks and field obstacles," he said.
Hezbollah politician Hassan Fadlallah on Tuesday said, "We cannot be lenient," signalling the group’s rejection of the timeline and the broader approach to the issue of its weapons.
The comment came after Hezbollah Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
said in a speech on Monday that "what the Lebanese government is doing by focusing on disarmament is a major mistake because this issue serves the goals of Israeli aggression."
Hezbollah has rejected the disarmament effort as a misstep while Israel continues to target Lebanon, and Shiite ministers walked out of the cabinet session that made the decision last year in protest.
Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of rearming, has criticized the army’s progress as insufficient, and has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon despite a November 2024 ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with the Iran-backed terror group, citing Hezbollah violations of the truce’s terms.
Israel has also kept troops in five south Lebanon areas it deems strategic, while Hezbollah has rejected calls to surrender its weapons north of the Litani.
Israeli officials say any disarmament plan must be fully and effectively implemented, especially in areas close to the border, and that continued Hezbollah terror activity constitutes a violation of relevant international resolutions.
While visiting Beirut on Monday, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Lebanon to keep up the disarmament of Hezbollah, saying it would help ensure the withdrawal of the IDF from Lebanese territory, during a presser with his Lebanese counterpart, Joseph Aoun.
Aoun said Lebanon has asked Germany to "demand the Israeli side implement the ceasefire agreement and withdraw from the territories it occupies."
He also asked Germany to assist the Lebanese army and to play a "key role" after the departure of United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
observers, whose mandate expires this year.
IDF says Sunday strike killed 2 Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
operatives crossing from Lebanon to Syria
Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Cynthia backed into the galley, the barbecue fork held in front of her.
Jack! she called. Where the hell are you? ...
on Tuesday, the military announced that two Paleostinian Islamic Jihad operatives who were en route to crossing the border from Lebanon into Syria on Sunday night were killed in an Arclight airstrike
...KABOOM! ...
The strike took place near the village of Majdal Anjar, which is located in Lebanon’s eastern Beqaa Valley, on a road leading from Beirut to Damascus, some 40 kilometers (nearly 25 miles) north of Israel’s border.
According to Lebanon’s health ministry, the strike killed four.
The IDF said it targeted the Islamic Jihad operatives while they were attempting to cross the Syrian border, "after in recent months they had been working to advance terror activities against the State of Israel from Lebanese territory."
"The terrorists’ actions posed an immediate threat to the citizens of the State of Israel and to IDF troops operating in the Syrian arena," the army added.
The military also issued footage of the strike.
While Israel regularly launches strikes in Lebanon against Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, attacks on the allied Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
Strip-based Islamic Jihad are rarer.
Islamic Jihad — which has a significant presence in both Lebanon and Syria — carried out the October 7, 2023, terror onslaught alongside Hamas
 ..a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
from the Gaza Strip, and was involved in numerous attacks on Israel from Lebanon alongside Hezbollah.
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