Mapped the IDF's newly declared "Forward Defense Zone" in south Lebanon. Its maritime boundary fully absorbs Lebanon's Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were explicitly guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime border agreement.
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The IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone" covers approximately 70 Lebanese villages - more than the 55 villages reported by Israeli media. Among those known to still be inhabited: the Christian villages of Rmeish, Debl, and Ain Ebel, and the Sunni town of Shebaa.
98% of documented white phosphorus attacks in south Lebanon — tracked at — fall within the IDF-declared "Forward Defense Zone." The zone Israel now claims as a military buffer is the same territory it systematically struck with that munition. whitephosphorus.info
The IDF's 2026 "Forward Defense Zone" mapped against the 1985–2000 "Security Zone".
In 1985 Israel recruited Christian and Druze communities to administer the occupied territory through SLA.
In 2026 no administration is needed as the strategy is the zone's complete depopulation.
Three months before the IDF declared the "maritime exclusion boundary," TotalEnergies, Eni & QatarEnergy were awarded an exploration permit for Block 8, which now falls within that zone. After a dry well at Qana in Block 9, Block 8 is Lebanon's next focus. reuters.com/business/energ…
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