This evening, the Deputy Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Elias Bou Saab, informed Lebanese President Michel Aoun that the US envoy for Lebanon's maritime border demarcation, Amos Hochstein, will be arriving in Beirut next week.

The Speaker of the Lebanese Parliament, Nabih Berri, at the end of August, said that “every cubic meter of gas and oil and the maritime borders with occupied Palestine are usurped by the Israeli occupation,” stressing that “Lebanon will defend its gas and oil with all its capabilities, and will not wait indefinitely." 

Berri indicated that "the ball is now in the court of the American negotiator," and that Lebanon "will be present to defend our waters as we defended our land."

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He also stressed the necessity of "working within the acceptable deadlines for the interest of negotiation because of the pressing time factor." 

This is happening at a time when confrontation may be at the door between Lebanon and the Israeli occupation over the latter's threat to start extracting gas from the Karish gas field, and thus strip Lebanon of its own maritime territory and right.

Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has vowed that the Lebanese Resistance will target the drilling platform in case a demarcation agreement with the Lebanese government is not reached in addition to enabling Lebanon to explore its own resources. 

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