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ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYAHU SAID SUNDAY – ISRAEL’S “INTENSE FIGHTING” IN GAZA WILL WIND DOWN – AND THE IDF COULD SOON SHIFT ITS FOCUS TO IRAN-BACKED TERRORIST GROUP HEZBOLLAH TO THE NORTH IN LEBANON. 

NETANYAHU SAID – THOUGH THE WAR WAS FAR FROM OVER, HE WAS WILLING AND READY TO CONSIDER DEALS TO GET MORE HOSTAGES HOME, ADDING THAT HE’S STILL PUSHING FORWARD WITH HIS GOAL OF ELIMINATING HAMAS. 

THE PRIME MINISTER REITERATED – ISRAEL WILL NOT LEAVE GAZA UNTIL THE MORE THAN 120 HOSTAGES ARE RETURNED – ALL WHILE TRYING TO MINIMIZE TENSIONS WITH HEZBOLLAH AT THE LEBANON BORDER. 

HEZBOLLAH ATTACKED ISRAEL FROM LEBANON SHORTLY AFTER THE OCTOBER 7TH HAMAS TERROR ATTACK – AND FIRE FIGHTS BETWEEN THE IDF AND THE HEZBOLLAH  AT THE ISRAEL-LEBANON BORDER HAVE ESCALATED IN RECENT WEEKS – RAISING THE PROSPECTS FOR AN ALL-OUT WAR. 

HEZBOLLAH – A TERROR GROUP BACKED BY IRAN – IS SUSPECTED OF STORING A MASSIVE COLLECTION OF IRANIAN BALLISTIC MISSILES, ROCKETS, AND HIGHLY TOXIC POWDER CALLED ‘RDX’ – ALONG WITH OTHER EXPLOSIVES. 

ACCORDING TO A REPORT BY THE TELEGRAPH – AIRPORT WORKERS AT BEIRUT’S RAFIC AL HARIRI INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT SAY  LARGE QUANTITIES OF WEAPONS ARRIVE AT THE AIRPORT FROM IRAN IN “MYSTERIOUS LARGE BOXES.”

THE WHISTLEBLOWERS INSIST THE AIRPORT IS HIDING THE LARGEST CACHE OF WEAPONS FOR HEZBOLLAH. 

IT’S AN ACCUSATION BEIRUT AIRPORT BOSSES DENIED.

TO QUELL THE CLAIMS – BEIRUT’S HEZBOLLAH-AFFILIATED MINISTER OF PUBLIC WORKS AND TRANSPORT ARRANGED A TOUR OF THE AIRPORT FOR JOURNALISTS MONDAY – TO PROVE THEY’RE NOT TRUE. 

HOWEVER – THE TIMES OF ISRAEL REPORTS – WHILE JOURNALISTS WERE TOURING THE AIRPORT GROUNDS – A CERTAIN AIR CARGO CENTER ON THE WAS OFF LIMITS TO CAMERAS AND REPORTERS  – DUE TO SO-CALLED “ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES.” 

ONLY DIPLOMATS FROM THE EU, IRAN, MEXICO AND OTHER ARAB COUNTRIES WERE ALLOWED INSIDE THAT CARGO CENTER.

SO FAR THERE HAVE BEEN NO REPORTS FROM JOURNALISTS AS TO WHETHER OR NOT THEY SAW WEAPONS AT THE AIRPORT.

MEANWHILE – THE CHAIRMAN OF THE UNITED STATES JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF CHARLES BROWN WARNED SUNDAY – THAT IF ISRAEL MOVES FORWARD WITH A MILITARY OFFENSIVE AGAINST HEZBOLLAH, IRAN WILL RESPOND AND BOLSTER HEZBOLLAH’S EFFORTS AGAINST ISRAEL. 

THOUSANDS OF IRAN-BACK MILITANTS HAVE ALREADY VOWED TO JOIN HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON IF THE CONFLICT EXPLODES INTO A WAR.

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