The Israeli security establishment gave the green light to start testing the extraction at Karish gas field...tomorrow.

Israel will extract gas from Karish to land and vise verse to test the system.

Production won't start tomorrow.

⋯ Israeli Minister Benny Gantz, in a live interview on Channel 12 now, talks about giving a green light from the Israeli security establishment to activate the Karish platform tomorrow.

"The army is getting ready for escalation."

⋯ The initial extraction for testing is going to happen tomorrow.

Production is expected to start in a week.

Note: Hezbullah is not concerned with testing but rather with production from the field.

⋯ Gantz says the agreement with Lebanon is satisfactory, that even Netanyahu would have signed it.

As in, Netanyahu is only voicing protest against the deal because of the elections. No Israeli official wants war.

⋯ Gantz: "If Hezbullah makes the mistake of attacking Karish, we will break Lebanon. "

Break as a literal translation of the word he used: dismantling

⋯ Lebanon received the Israeli response about the new changes it requested.

Israel is awaiting Lebanon's response.

⋯ Gantz: "I am the one who decided to raise the alert in the north and ordered the forces to prepare, and this came after accurate intelligence information."

"I am not causing concern for the residents, I am speaking seriously and preserving the population."

⋯ Gantz has invited Netanyahu to the Ministry of War to be briefed about the situation.

Military leaders will participate in the meeting.

Israel: One death and another seriously injured in a shooting at the Shuafat refugee camp checkpoint.

⋯ Yamam Israeli special forces have arrived at the scene of the operation, as a large force is preparing to storm the Shuafat camp.

⋯ Israeli soldiers are currently all hiding behind cement fortifications.

⋯ Checkpoints in the area have been closed.

⋯ Palestinian Red Crescent:

"Israeli occupation forces are preventing the Red Crescent crews in Jerusalem from entering the Anata area and Shuafat camp."

Several arrests were made.