🇮🇱 By occupying Mount Hermon and destroying strategic capabilities in Syria, Israel is signaling: we will never return to the containment and absorption of 6-October

❗️Since the ceasefire started in Lebanon, 7 Lebanese have been kidnapped by the Israeli army according to their media.

Today 2 civilians are confirmed. The other 5 are unknown, could be fighters that stayed behind and captured trying to leave. No details at all.

The IDF isn't transparent about these events, nor is it about the names of the fighters it captured during the war nor about the fate of the bodies. We know there is 1 (houla)+3 (faces blurred) +3 (aita)+amhaz.

Hezbullah is unable to conclude fates before a full Israeli withdrawal form the border villages and search for bodies.

The hope is, they are freed in a deal between Hamas and Israel. That's currently the only hope.

I'll elaborate thoroughly later on, but in brief:

Hezbullah will endure these 60 days to not give Israel any pretext to stay longer, claiming the threat was still there so deal failed. If Jews stay, Israel will be considered an occupation force and will be burdened both locally and internationally, legitimizing Hezbullah.

Hezbullah will give the Lebanese state and army the full task of maintaining peace and security in south Lebanon, obeying the ceasefire and building up its argument and rhetoric

Hezbullah needs to ensure that the war ends, because neither it nor Lebanon can afford a second wave now under these conditions. Hezbullah inshallah is recovering well, but we all know a war won't be the best outcome

So far Israel didn't hint about staying longer in Lebanon but neither did it try to start returning the settlers north. Jews are expected to leave by the end of January.

🇱🇧l🇮🇱 Israeli drone activity is reported in Nabatieh and Tyre governorates, violating the ceasefire and in grave aggression to Lebanon's sovereignty

No comments on the matter by the Lebanese army, unlike the IDF who keeps the settlers updated on hourly basis.

Here please understand that the situation is different from Gaza and Syria

Gaza is not a state that is recognized in the world, and Syria is a failed state that is now under a revolutionary transitional period and the long war made foreign powers treat it with no respect.

In other words, there is a reason why Netanyahu visited Gaza but didn't cross into Lebanon and won't into Syria. He is bound by some laws that he doesn't want to be seen stepping over.

In Lebanon, the state is friendly to the West and the U.S has allies (or pawns) in Lebanon. So this could all factor with a different approach and they could indeed withdraw.

But again, with Israel there is no constant, and their evil transcends norms. So well have to wait and see. It should be clear by mid-Jan-25

🗣 Gaegae in a new attack on Hezbullah and the discussion of a defense strategy:

"Some smart people are bringing up the "defensive strategy" again, but it's high overdue and not its time"

🗣 Kataeb party's Nadem Gemayel:

"Just as his big brother to Hezbullah in Damascus fell, they will reach a day when they also surrender weapons because they has no other choice."

🗣 Trying to project the events in Syria is a total collapse to Hezbullah and is now weak and vulnerable, MP Camille Chamoun:

"We will not prosecute anyone who was aligned with the Syrian regime. The important thing is that we rebuild the country and see how to return Lebanon to the Switzerland of the East, and this is a golden goal."

🗣 MP Salim Al-Sayegh, talking about a Western-Israeli axis:

"We are beginning to see a great victory for the freedom axis. We do not want to be neutral, we want to be with the freedom axis.

🗣 Lebanese Forces MP Richard Kouyoumjian:

"What do you care what Netanyahu says! He wants to create a new Middle East! Let him do it. I only care about my country."

🗣 Journalist: The first time Israel violated the agreement, was Hezbullah to blame?

🗣Lebanese Forces MP Razi al-Hajj: I don't want to be in the position of defending Israel, but what is the movement that Hezbullah is carrying out? There are movements on the ground under the pretext of returning home.

🗣 Former Minister May Chidiac:

"Israel can complain to the Americans regarding the Lebanese army. One of the officers may have pro-Hezbullah leanings"

They openly want to purge the Shia, and the biggiest Shia party in Lebanon from everything.

🗣 "Change" MP Mark Daou:

"The Lebanese army is capable of doing its duty on the border with sticks... sticks are enough."

🗣 Kataeb member Serge Dagher:

"It is not Hezbullah that raised the Shiite sect [from the dire life conditions they always had], but it was there present in restaurants, nightlife, and drinking alcohol."

Prisons are usually horrific places, and I for one an advocate for abolishing all types of prisons.

Punishment for crimes are either death, the whip, or fines alongside house arrest. Any prison is a great violation of rights and a damning experience for the human being.

Sednaya is one like all the dark dungeons of the Arab world, but also like the dungeons of all around the world. It is also one that was blown way out of proportion, and what we are seeing is what we expected it to be. Like prisons by US to Israel to Russia and here. Today Syria's prisons are opened but who will open the prisons in Israel and the the other Arab states. Who will uncover the fate of those who spent decades there.

In these Syrian prisons, terrorists and criminals. But also in some cases many innocent over political differences. Today many innocent were left free, but also many criminals and rapists and mass murderers. No one even bats an eye or cares. Free for all.

Glad to see the innocent free, but I pity and curse those who dedicated their lives and obsession over Assad and have never once cared about the prisoners in Israel, and so on.

These people, are not human rights activists or care about humanity. They are political and as a saying goes: only care about their foe's fall but don't care about their own hoes.

I do wonder, if Joulani will blow the prison up, use it when he rules Syria, or make it a museum.

There isn't really much to show in terms of museum, but blowing it up would be symbolic. After all, Joulani needs to transfer the thousands he has in his secret prisons in Idlib somewhere.

According to news, there are some prisoners that the rebels couldn't find, claiming there are secret doors. However no footage of that yet or those doors. There are dozens of CCTV footage cameras, and those are standard in all prisons.

I hope whoever they didn't find, they do, because dying of thirst of hunger is not a good way to go.

That all aside, claiming there are 100,000-800,000 people still missing inside some secret areas is quite delusional. Can't fit even if stacked.

🇮🇱l🇸🇾 Israel continues to target the Syrian army assets and bases, including many ammo depos.

Israeli soldiers continue to advance in southern Syria, with unclear end goal now.

📰 NEW: Israeli ground forces passed the demilitarized zone and crossed into Syrian territory for the first time since 1973, Israeli officials say - NYT

سلامٌ على من ضحوا، سلامٌ على من بذلوا أرواحهم. سلامٌ على الصادقين، وسلامٌ على كل الشهداء في أرض سوريا.

It was the right thing to do then, and if the time goes back, it will be the right thing to do again.

These are the facts, this is the true understanding of the events and the way this war started, progressed, and ended. The decision was sane.

We (not me, but Lebanese Shia and Hezbullah) fought a Takfiri wave of international terrorists for the sake of order and to protect Lebanon, not for the sake of a man's throne or his system.

Fought alongside an ally, whose stance was loyal and allowed the resistance to grow, and didn't sell-out in the face of a clear threat to all.

Fought then until they were defeated, and evolved into what they are now. Unlike us who stayed one in terms of ideology and stance, they shifted many times. We showed consistency while they and the world showed hypocrisy.

When I say consistent, I mean it. Hezbullah never lied or flipped sides nor did they ever stand by oppression or fight for someone's throne.

They fought to protect and liberate Lebanon, and fought to preserve the ability to.

📸 25, February 1987, the anniversary of the Fathallah Barracks massacre in the Basta area of ​​Beirut, when Syrian army forces executed 22 Hezbullah fighters during the campaign to take over the centers from the militias in West Beirut.

It was considered one of the rare direct clashes between the Syrian army and Hezbullah. Those who did the crime ruled Syria as of yesterday, but despite that Hezbullah put their hands in their hands and transcended for the better sake of the whole ummah.