'Israel' powerless to remove outpost in occupied Shebaa: Hezbollah
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The Lebanese resistance has ignored threats from "Israel" to remove an outpost established in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
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A Hezbollah outpost in Lebanon. (AP)
MP Mohammed Raad, the head of Hezbollah's Loyalty to the Resistance Bloc in the Lebanese parliament, stated on July 1 that Israel is "unable" to dismantle the Hezbollah outpost established earlier this year in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Raad explained that “'Israel' has been talking a lot for a month about the two tents on the border, as it is considered that they were placed at an advanced point on the Blue Line … it requests that these two tents be removed and that it would be preferable for the resistance to remove them [in order to avoid a confrontation]."
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The MP added that despite threatening to remove it by force, the Israeli occupation “does not want” war.
“No one can impose anything on Hezbollah,” he asserted, “gone are the days when 'Israel' could act as it pleases without batting an eyelid.” Raad referred to the Tammuz nuclear reactor in Iraq that was bombed by "Israel" in 1981, telling the occupation that now it cannot even remove "two tents" because of the Resistance.
The Hezbollah outpost is located on land that "Israel" illegally occupied during the 1967 war. It was established in reaction to "Israel's" unlawful border excavations and engineering work in its plans to build a massive, million-dollar 'defensive wall' on the border, which began in 2018, an effort that infringes on Lebanon's sovereignty.
Last week, Lebanese media stated that the border tensions in early June, which generated large protests and the deployment of Lebanese and Israeli forces to the border, were an Israeli attempt to remove the posts.
Despite reports of US pressure and Israeli protests to the UN, Hezbollah has not removed the posts.
