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Lebanon-Israel maritime border dispute returns to the fore
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BEIRUT, 04 July 2022, (TON): A maritime border dispute between Lebanon and Israel has returned to the fore following a security development on Saturday night.
Israel’s army spokesman Avichay Adraee said warplanes and an Israeli missile ship had intercepted three drones that approached from Lebanon’s side toward the airspace over Israel’s economic waters.
Hezbollah’s military wing, the Islamic Resistance, confirmed the incident in a statement “a group affiliated with martyrs Jamil Skaff and Mahdi Yaghi launched three drones of different sizes toward the disputed area, over the Karish gas field, to carry out reconnaissance missions. The mission was accomplished and the message was conveyed.”
Lebanon mostly stayed silent on the development, although caretaker Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib said there was a possibility of reaching an agreement on the border issue in September and that information from the US and UN showed there was progress in the negotiations.
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