— 🇱🇧/🇮🇱 NEW: Today, Sunday, November 24 (Beirut time), Hezbollah announced 51 operations, marking the highest number in a single day in its history.

This surpasses the previous record of 48 operations set on October 25.

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— 🇮🇱/🇱🇧 NEW: Lebanese media outlet Al-Manar reports that Hezbollah targeted an Israeli Merkava tank near the town of Shamaa. The tank exploded, and the soldiers inside were burnt to death.

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— 🇱🇧 🇱🇧 There is optimism in Lebanon regarding a ceasefire based on UN Security Council Resolution 1701.

Contrary to what some anti-Lebanese media would have you believe, UNSCR 1701 would be a win for the resistance, as it would restore the 'status-quo' from before the war. This status-quo means that Hezbollah will remain active, it will remain armed, and it will remain deployed in all of southern Lebanon along the border, while Israel will be forced to retreat.

In practice, it will not force Hezbollah to withdraw beyond the Litani River, nor would it force Hezbollah to disarm or disband. Yes, technically the resolution states that the only 'armed forces' south of the Litani River should be Lebanese military and UNIFIL (meaning, not Hezbollah), but this will never be implemented because Israel does not implement part of its obligations.

For example, Israel is occupying the Shebaa Farms, which is internationally recognized as Lebanese territory, and resolution 1701 calls upon Israel to withdraw all its forces from Lebanon and for the Lebanese government to exercise full control of its territory. It is very simple: Israel will not adhere to this resolution, so neither will Hezbollah, and it has been like this for over 18 years.

Furthermore, the resolution calls on the disarmament of all 'armed groups' in Lebanon, but the Lebanese constitution does not consider Hezbollah an 'armed group', and the majority of the Lebanese political establishment considers Hezbollah to be exempt from this clause. This is very hard to change, especially with Hezbollah's ally in charge, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.

People need to understand that UN Resolution 1701 was active in Lebanon before the October 7th war, it was the Status Quo. It is not something new, it is not an Israeli win, and Hezbollah will not disarm nor will it retreat a single inch.

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— 🇮🇱🇱🇧 🇱🇧 TLDR: If there is a ceasefire based on UN Resolution 1701, Israel will fully withdraw from Lebanon, Hezbollah will remain in the South, and the situation returns to pre-October 7th of 2023.

This would mean that Israel was not able to achieve any of its two major objectives: 1. Depleting Hezbollah's missile power and defeating it militarily, 2. Forcing Hezbollah beyond the Litani River.

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