Israeli Military correspondent Alon Ben David:

"After the echo of the huge explosion in Beirut that was felt as far as Cyprus faded quickly, and as the smoke faded, once again the sad truth was revealed in Lebanon: There is no force in this country that can challenge Hezbollah." https://t.co/rx00Ei0Q4Y

Alon:

"Nasrallah does not intend to abandon his retaliatory attack, and at the same time he keeps the Israeli army on alert in the north, or as he calls it: "standing on a foot and a half".

(Translated by: @YounesZaatari) https://t.co/SCrzk1KT8I

The "National News Agency" reported that an army patrol raided a warehouse in Starco Street in Bab al-Tabbaneh - Tripoli, and found 3 old and unusable shells.

Alon Ben David - "There is no longer a place for patrols on the fence, outposts, or headquarters exposed to anti-tank fire on the border with Lebanon."

"Israel must understand: Perhaps 14 years of peace in the north have come to an end." https://t.co/qga7bMMRp1

Alon Ben David:

"There were those in Israel who mistakenly thought that the effect of the bombing in Beirut would curb Hezbollah, and might shake Nasrallah's seat, in practice - the opposite happened." https://t.co/ubQvGbR0Gl

"After 14 years of blessed peace the northern border, tension is back.

Build a barrier in place of the 40-year-old fence, and set up a border system managed remotely, with scanners remote-controlled firing stations and special forces"

https://t.co/GFVkCEAgZS

Will do a small thread (in a few) about WikiLeaks and the accusations of Hezbullah buying ammonium nitarte.

It will unfortunately start with explaining to most what is WikiLeaks and how it works.

To put it in the simplist way possible, WikiLeaks is not an it. WikiLeaks does not speak about itself or in its name, WikiLeaks does not claim or say anything.

WikiLeaks posts what it was able to leak from embassies, think tanks, etc. Therefore no one can say WikiLeaks said. 1/

Therefore when we deal with WikiLeaks we deal with it according to who said it, aka who they leaked from.

Like the Saudi leaks about Lebanon or the Syrian leaks, they all need a context. I was able to use them in a huge thread about May 7, that i'll up in its anniversary. 2/

For example once in a WikiLeaks Saudi cable, the KSA embassy was talking about Hezbullah training camps in Al Arz.

Unironically their informant mistook Hezbullah training camps to Lebanese Forces camps. It happens and that's a claim that shouldn't be considered a fact. 3/

And in the light of the Beirut explosion, after no credibile data was available to connect Hezbullah to that exact shipment, anti Hezbullah think tanks made a personal crusade that started with an article about Iran sending Hezbullah 700 t in ammonian nitrate through the port. 4/

Then an article about the real owner of the ship that carried the ammonian nitrate (2013) to a Hezbullah bank in Cyprus, and finally an old WikiLeaks leak from 2010 from Stratfor think tank.

Regarding the first, it was through unnamed western intellegence sources. 5/

Sources that not only were unnamed, but happen to have connected the shipment to Iran. Hezbullah somehow bought the shipment from Iran, contrary to what the old and current narrative is of Hezbullah being bankrolled and supplied free by Iran.

The shipment came through Syria.6/