{"id":47979,"date":"2019-08-26T09:53:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47979"},"modified":"2019-08-26T09:53:09","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T14:53:09","slug":"lebanons-president-announces-israeli-attacks-are-declaration-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=47979","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon&#8217;s President Announces Israeli Attacks Are &#8220;Declaration Of War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-26\/lebanons-president-aoun-israeli-attacks-are-declaration-war\">Lebanon&#8217;s President\u00a0Announces Israeli Attacks Are\u00a0&#8220;Declaration Of War&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After pro-Iran allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq were all hit in suspected Israeli strikes in the space of less than 24 hours, signalling a new aggression out of Tel Aviv and willingness to risk yet another major Middle East war, Arab capitals are<strong>&nbsp;now&nbsp;alerting their armed forces to be on a war footing<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lebanese President Michel Aoun on Monday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/middle-east-news\/lebanese-president-israeli-strikes-amount-to-declaration-of-war-1.7752215\">condemned<\/a>\u00a0the &#8220;Israeli assault on the southern suburbs of Beirut&#8221; and told the country&#8217;s United Nations Special Coordinator, that the recent spate of drone strikes on Lebanon\u00a0<strong>amount to a\u00a0<em>&#8220;declaration of war&#8221;<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/michel%20auon.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption><em>banese President Michel Aoun, file image via Reuters.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Especially in Lebanon, where the most powerful military force is not the Army but Shiite paramilitary group Hezbollah, tensions are soaring after Hezbollah media offices in Beirut were<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-08-25\/israel-launched-failed-drone-attack-hezbollah-southern-beirut\">\u00a0targeted by Israeli drones<\/a>\u00a0overnight Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joyce_Karam\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/718517643301543936\/fgLtlmEF_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joyce_Karam\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Joyce_Karam\/status\/1165795590451736577\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New Video of alleged Israel strikes in east Lebanon ~ an hour ago,  targeting Palestinian Group PFLP.<br><br>If true, this may be 4th military incident  in Lebanon-Syria-Iraq involving Israel in 24 hours. Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tobiaschneider\">@tobiaschneider<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>A separate Israeli operation the day following reached deep into Lebanon, killing&nbsp;a PFLP-GC leader in Lebanon&#8217;s Bekaa Valley (a Palestinian paramilitary group).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah described the weekend aggression as was the first Israeli attacks inside Lebanon since the devastating month-long 2006 war; however,\u00a0Israel has yet to claim the Beirut attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lebanon&#8217;s President\u00a0Announces Israeli Attacks Are\u00a0&#8220;Declaration Of War&#8221; After pro-Iran allies in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq were all hit in suspected Israeli strikes in the space of less than 24 hours, signalling a new aggression out of Tel Aviv and willingness to risk yet another major Middle East war, Arab capitals are&nbsp;now&nbsp;alerting their armed forces to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8311,441,442,1049,3042,4318],"class_list":["post-47979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-declaration-of-war","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-israel","tag-lebanon","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47980,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47979\/revisions\/47980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}