Aid freezing suspension for the army


Sources close to the US State Department revealed that Washington has lifted the freezing of $ 95 million of aid to the Lebanese army, amid the freezing of the Trump administration of foreign aid for a period of 90 days.

“The exemption indicates that the Trump administration still intends to strengthen the Lebanese army and the new government, stressing that the aid is part of a broader strategy for the Trump administration to try to continue” weakening Hezbollah, reducing its influence in Lebanon and ensuring that the ceasefire with Israel continues. ”

A US State Department spokesman said: Lebanon suffered a lot, but he learned from his suffering, he learned not to be permissible for the wars of others, and Lebanon knows that its existential interests are with its Arab surroundings, and that its life interests are with the whole free world.

Al -Akhbar stated: The committee in charge of monitoring the ceasefire has not held any meeting it since before the end of the period of withdrawal extended on February 18.

And informed sources quoted two meanings in the countries sponsoring the ceasefire agreement that the Israelis expressed to the Americans and the French their conviction that the Lebanese army “will not be able to control the borders, which leads to think about alternatives to ensure the security of the settlements, including pressure to spread a new international force under the seventh chapter.”

And Al -Akhbar continued: Day after day, the occupied areas expand until its area, according to the source of the follower of ten kilometers from the western, central and eastern sector, is the area of ​​the military centers created in the five points in the Shouna, Jabal Balat, the Monastery, Al -Duwair and Hammas. However, this area increases if we count the buffer areas from Kafrkla and Al -Adita to the desertion of Al -Fuqa, fans, the blessing of Risha and the Valley of Al -Balaiq on the outskirts of the orchard. The area doubles if the 13 -keeping points are added to it since 2006, and 17 points that Israel violated between the blue line and the technical fence, which means that the enemy devotes a buffer zone along the border from the Lebanese side, while Israel intensified its assassinations to Hermel, giving itself freedom of movement and targeting, the last of which is a raid from a car he carried out in a car in a town in a town Nashknai, which led to the martyrdom of Khadr Hashem, who was called by Hezbollah.


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