{"id":21162,"date":"2022-07-08T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2022-07-08T22:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/?p=21162"},"modified":"2022-07-08T13:46:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-08T20:46:21","slug":"hizballah-drones-were-the-opening-shot-of-a-maritime-energy-war-vs-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/hizballah-drones-were-the-opening-shot-of-a-maritime-energy-war-vs-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hizballah drones were the opening shot of a maritime energy war vs Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hassan Nasralah<\/a> – July 7, 2022<\/p>\n

The IDF\u2019s revelation on Wednesday, July 6, of a fourth Hizballah drone that was intercepted heading for Israel\u2019s Karish gas rig, confirmed an assessment that the Lebanese terrorist organization was bent on starting a war, initially over this offshore gas platform. This hitherto undisclosed drone was intercepted three days before the three that were shot down on July 2 by Barak missiles. This one was downed by advance electronic warfare measures after being identified at a distance from Israel\u2019s maritime economic zone, while still over Lebanese waters. No reason for the disclosure of this fourth drone at this time was offered by the military.<\/p>\n

DEBKAfile\u2019s Mid-East sources have concluded that Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Iran\u2019s terrorist proxy Hizballah, has decided to go to war against Israel over its newest gas rig. In his words, \u201cLebanon\u2019s oil and gas resources must be freed from Israeli control, just as the south was freed [in 2000] and Israel\u2019s \u2018security zone\u2019 dismantled by force of arms.\u201d<\/p>\n

The drone tactic is the opening shot, say our sources, for three objectives:<\/p>\n

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  1. To scare the staff employed on Israel\u2019s offshore gas and oil rigs in the eastern Mediterranean into fleeing for fear of their lives.<\/li>\n
  2. Nasrallah included Greece\u2019s maritime energy projects in his declaration of war.<\/li>\n
  3. As a strong message that the management of gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean had passed from the Lebanese government to Hizballah control. The intention was to nullify the Lebanese prime minister\u2019s condemnation of the drones as \u201cunacceptable\u201d and as jeopardizing ongoing US-brokered\u00a0negotiations on the drawing of a maritime border between Lebanese and Israeli economic zones.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The interception of the three Hizballah unarmed UAVs was presented by the Israeli military as an important feat, although the Barak missiles were highly expensive compared with the cheap drones. However, Hizballah, did not care about recovering the drones but aimed at this stage for a psychological advantage. This was meant as a declaration that a new page had been opened in its contest against Israel over the oil and gas fields of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n

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    Hassan Nasralah – July 7, 2022 The IDF\u2019s revelation on Wednesday, July 6, of a fourth Hizballah drone that was intercepted heading for Israel\u2019s Karish gas rig, confirmed an assessment that the Lebanese terrorist organization was bent on starting a war, initially over this offshore gas platform. This hitherto undisclosed drone was intercepted three days … Continue reading Hizballah drones were the opening shot of a maritime energy war vs Israel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[6337,896,279,55,16821,48,8],"class_list":["post-21162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-red-horse","tag-hassan-nasrallah","tag-hizballah","tag-iran","tag-israel","tag-karish-gas-rig","tag-middle-east","tag-war"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fAkI-5vk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21164,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21162\/revisions\/21164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/setapartbytruth.org\/wordpress-watchman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}