🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Gas Grab: Israel Just Took Lebanon’s Qana Field
🚨🇮🇱🇱🇧 Gas Grab: Israel Just Took Lebanon’s Qana Field
After months of ground operations in south Lebanon, Israel has declared a permanent buffer zone on land and sea, absorbing what was never theirs under international law.
🔸 The zone covers 70 Lebanese villages, including still-inhabited Christian towns (Rmeish, Ain Ebel, Debel) and the Sunni town of Shebaa.
🔸 Israel’s maritime boundary now fully absorbs Lebanon’s Qana gas field, whose exploration rights were guaranteed under the 2022 US-brokered maritime agreement.
🔸 Total energies found no commercial reserves in Qana and abandoned Block 9 in 2023. But Block 8 remains unexplored, and control of Qana serves strategic purposes.
🔸 Previous estimates suggested up to 100 billion cubic meters valued at $20–40 billion, but those figures are now in question.
🔸 Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz stated residents of these towns will not be allowed to return — permanent displacement — not temporary security.
🔸 The IDF is rigging neighborhoods with explosives, filming demolitions, and posting them online. An average of 1,000 homes per day have been demolished since March 2.
🔸 As a direct response to Israel’s repeated ceasefire violations and unilateral land grab, Hezbollah ambushed an 8-vehicle Israeli convoy on April 19, destroying 4 Merkava tanks with IEDs in under an hour. Two Israeli soldiers confirmed killed since the truce began.
🔸 Five Israeli military divisions plus naval forces are operating south of the line, a permanent military footprint, not a withdrawal.
This is not a defense zone. It is annexation by another name. Israel is erasing Lebanon’s southern border, stealing its offshore gas, and displacing tens of thousands of civilians under the cover of a “ceasefire.” The 2022 US-brokered agreement is worthless when one party ignores it.
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