Thread by @lennybendavid

1/ #BREAKING The ground in #Lebanon is rumbling. So much going on that requires surveillance.
Economic collapse, #Hizbullah mischief along #Israel's border, government collapse, & a ticking bomb that was set 15 yrs ago, which could blow up Friday and collapse the whole house. 🇱🇧

2/ #Breaking #Lebanon.
@yonibmen has excellent piece (in Hebrew for now) on the terrorist incursion along #Israel-#Syria border last night. israelhayom.co.il/article/787131
Little doubt Hizbullah's behind it & seeks to deflect the IDF from attacking Leb. These attacks have history.

3/#Breaking #Lebanon.
Hizb, #Iran & Syria worked to set up a Golan liberation militia to attack #Israel from Syria.
First leader, Samir Kuntar, a vile terrorist who smashed a Jewish baby. Killed on Golan in 2015 in Israeli air strike.

4/ #Breaking #Lebanon. Next up to head the Golan Liberation Militia, Jihad Mughniyeh, son of the arch-terrorist Imad.
After Imad assassinated in 2008, #Iran's Qassem #Soleimani became his godfather.
Jihad killed on the Golan in 2015.

5/ #Breaking #Lebanon.
The film the #IDF released last night of the 4 terrorists who tried to infiltrate is reminiscent of a film 1 year ago, when #Israel took out a cell of pro-Iranian operatives ready to launch an explosives-laden drone from the Golan. timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry…

6/ #Breaking #Lebanon Why's Hizbullah trying to hit #Israel from #Syria? Besides challenging Russia that promised to keep #Iranians many miles from Israel, Hizb knows that Israeli retaliation in Lebanon will hit Lebanese infrastructure hard. Hizb isn't feeling Lebanese love.

7/ Too little attention paid to this story last month showing Hizb's "30 Missile-Related Sties in Civilian Areas of Beirut" released by an Israeli research center israel-alma.org & Wikimapia.
How many Beirut residents have fled their 'hoods?

israeldefense.co.il/en/node/44151

MEANWHILE, #Breaking #Lebanon.
Pay attention to a huge verdict (in abstentia) being handed down on Friday for 4 Hizbullah members charged w assassinating Leb PM Rafik Hariri in a massive bomb in Beirut in 2005. Tried by a special UN, Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon

9/ #Breaking #Lebanon For background on the assassination & trial see timeline below. 2010 Nasrallah warned Hizb would "cut off the hand" of anyone trying to make arrest of Hizb member.
Whichever way trial goes, it can explode Leb to smithereens.
thenational.ae/world/mena/spe…

10/End #Breaking #Lebanon. If all that wasn't enough, Lebanese For Min Nassif Hitti resigned today. The veteran diplomat complained, "Lebanon today isn't the Leb that we loved & wanted as a beacon & a model. Lebanon today is slipping into a failed state.”🇱🇧
What took him so long?