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Source: https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-893840
Israel Cannot Settle for another Ceasefire with Lebanon
(Media Line-Jerusalem Post) Gabriel Colodro - Maj. (res.) Sarit Zehavi, founder and president of the Alma Research and Education Center, said in an interview that between 2000 and 2023, "there was no Israeli presence in Lebanon and there was no buffer zone." The area south of the Litani River was supposed to be free of "any illegitimate weapon," but "it never happened, and nobody enforced that....We are going to do that. We are going to control there, and we are going to make sure that Hizbullah is not there and it's not capable of coming back there." "We have no interest in keeping lands of Lebanon. We want to make peace with Lebanon." But "we are not interested in just another ceasefire. It will not only fail to solve the problem but...will enable Hizbullah to rebuild and to threaten us again." She said developments in Iran and Lebanon are inseparable. If the Islamic Republic were to fall, Hizbullah would struggle to preserve both its political standing and its military power in Lebanon. "The boss of Hizbullah is Iran. Hizbullah gets from Iran the money, the weapons, the training, and the ideology." Hizbullah's power rests not only on arms but also on the parallel system of services it provides in southern Lebanon. Its infrastructure includes schools, ambulances, banks, supermarkets, pharmacies, gas stations, and hospitals.