This comes at a time when Hezbollah showed a kind of flexibility regarding any negotiations aimed at stopping the Israeli raids on Lebanon without linking it to the Gaza front.
It seems now that the strategy adopted by Tel Aviv, if officially adopted, may aim to push Tehran and Hezbollah to exert additional pressure on the head of the political bureau of the Hamas movement. Yahya Al-Sanwarhoping to reach a deal agreement to release the hostages held in Gaza.
A striking and ironic development reminiscent of the demand of the Secretary-General of Hezbollah, Hassan NasrallahSince October 7, he has declared that he will not stop firing rockets at Israel until the fighting in Gaza ends.
In this context, Sky News Arabia’s Israeli affairs editor, Nidal Kanana, said:
- At first, Hezbollah was skirmishing with Israel to force it into a truce in Gaza.
- Israel now wants to put pressure on the Gaza Strip through the party to reach an agreement, that is, pressure on Hamas through Hezbollah.
- Israel believes that Hezbollah and Iran want a ceasefire, and therefore will pressure Hamas to make concessions in the negotiations.
Reuters reported, citing a government official in Lebanon That Hezbollah abandoned the adoption of a truce in Gaza as a condition for a ceasefire in Lebanon.
The same source confirmed that there are many reasons that explain the sudden change in Hezbollah’s position after its insistence on the Gaza support front, the first of which is the great pressures placed on it politically and militarily.
The official stated that the decision came due to Israel’s intensification of its military campaign, in addition to the state of displacement witnessed in the incubating environment in southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of Beirut, and the objection of some Lebanese political parties to the party’s position on connecting the fronts.
In the same context, American sources told Sky News Arabia that talk about separating… The Lebanon and Gaza fronts Time has passed, because Lebanon is witnessing an actual state of war and is no longer a support front.
At the same time, the sources considered that stopping the war on the Lebanese front was theoretically easier than stopping it on the Gaza front.
