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Israel/Lebanon Gas Tensions Persist

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The head of Lebanon's Hezbollah said on Thursday that his group could stop Israel from extracting gas from a maritime field that Beirut says lies in disputed waters.

  • Tensions rose at the start of this week when a drillship under contract by Israel entered disputed waters in the eastern Mediterranean.
  • Hezbollah "has the capacity to prevent the enemy from beginning to extract from Karish, and all the enemy's actions will not be able to protect this ship," Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said.
  • The US is expected to send an envoy to Beirut at the end of this week to try and calm tensions.

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