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  • Nearly half of US citizens say Washington’s post-9/11 wars ’worth the cost’
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39760

    Nearly half of US citizens believe the wars waged by Washington in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond after the 11 September 2001 attacks have been “worth it,” a YouGov poll published on 2 August shows.

    Soyons résolument optimistes : près de la moitié des Etasuniens pensent que non, ça ne valait pas vraiment le coup de tuer quelque 5 millions de personnes pour venger le 11 septembre...

  • ‘The Board of Peace is failing’: NGO chief warns UN of ‘disturbing’ Gaza situation
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39607

    The head of an umbrella organization representing over 100 NGOs accused US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza of “failing” to do its job on 26 August, citing the extreme conditions besieged Palestinian civilians continue to face due to the ongoing genocide.

    She said Gaza managed to “claw” its way out of an “engineered famine,” but stressed that the situation remains extremely dangerous for multiple reasons, including severe aid restrictions and non-stop Israeli attacks.

    Rayburn added that it is “disturbing” that “a child who may no longer be at imminent risk of starving to death may still be killed by shelling.”

    “This is not success. Any reported improvements do not dilute the responsibility that still sits in this room.”

    “Success [is] measured by whether the Board of Peace, ISF, and NCAG provide immediate protection for civilians; and in the long term, whether they move Gaza towards the required legal endpoint: The end of Israel’s unlawful presence and realization of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination,” she went on to say. 

    She warned that by “these basic measures, the Board of Peace is failing.” Rayburn additionally highlighted the severe aid restrictions imposed on Palestinians in violation of the ceasefire plan.

    “Medical items, such as crutches and wheelchairs, considered “dual-use” were repeatedly rejected; arbitrary restrictions were placed on engine oil, forcing a 45 percent price hike; and watermelons and onions were repeatedly rejected for falling outside “the humanitarian policy” – a policy that has never been made available.”

  • Iran reportedly invited by Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan to join defense pact | The Jerusalem Post
    https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-906316

    Iran has been invited to join the Mecca Agreement for Mutual Defense, the new security alliance established by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan earlier this month, Al Mayadeen reported on Saturday, citing a senior Iranian official.

    The invitation has not yet been officially confirmed by Iran’s Foreign Ministry or by any of the three countries that are parties to the agreement.

    • Et ça, c’est pas mal non plus !
      https://thecradle.co/articles/uk-judge-bars-sentencing-of-palestine-action-activists-for-terrorism

      A British judge ruled on 21 August that five Palestine Action activists convicted of criminal damage at a Barclays branch will not be sentenced as “terrorists.”

      In a joint statement, the five said they were “extremely relieved that the court has seen sense and decided not to sentence us as terrorists.”

      “This should never have been an option,” they said. “We were on trial for charges of criminal damage, for damaging some windows and spraying red paint on a Barclays branch. At no point during the trial were we, or the jury, informed that, if convicted, we could face being sentenced as terrorists.”

      The five activists, aged between 28 and 70 years old, were convicted in June over causing nearly $300,000 in damage to a Barclays branch in Burnley, Lancashire, in August 2024, in protest at its stake in leading Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems.

      Palestine Action was not proscribed as a terrorist organization when the five had acted or when the jury convicted them.

      Depuis, un peu de droit s’est fait entendre :

      A U.K. judge ruled Friday that the damage protesters caused at a bank branch was not enough to merit terrorism sentencing, Dania Akkad reports. Sentencing is on Sept. 4.

      https://consortiumnews.com/2026/08/21/barclays-5-palestine-activists-wont-be-tried-as-terrorists

  • Israeli attack on Syrian air base launched hours after Turkish delegation visited site
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39463

    Début de la nouvelle guerre (suicidaire) israélienne ?

    A Turkish military delegation visited the Abu al-Duhur Air Base in northwestern Syria a day before Israel bombed the facility, Reuters reported on 19 August.

    The Turkish delegation had gone to the base in Idlib province to inspect rehabilitation work underway, and left hours before the unprovoked Israeli attack, the two officials said, speaking anonymously.

    Syrian military officials told Reuters that four unidentified aircraft struck runways and storage facilities at the airfield, though sources said that no one was killed.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office claimed Damascus was “on the verge of breaching” what it called a “status quo agreed with Israel in security matters” by permitting Turkish forces to deploy at the base, and said Israel would not tolerate a deployment it considers a threat to its security.

    Ankara rejected the claim outright, with the Turkish presidency saying the “untenable allegations put forward by the Israeli Prime Minister’s Office are intended to legitimize Israel’s unlawful airstrikes targeting Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” and accused Netanyahu of chasing “expansionist and destabilizing policies” before elections in Israel.❞

  • Israel spent over $140bn over three years to finance genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39445

    140 milliard pour liquider du Palestinien.

    The genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is the longest and most expensive military campaign in Israel’s history, costing an estimated $142 billion so far and set to approach roughly $169 billion, Haaretz reported on 16 August.

    Tel Aviv’s genocide has driven Israel’s national debt up by some $130 billion, with the state set to spend around $500 billion on the military over the coming decade, according to Haaretz. 

    Israeli War Ministry Director General Amir Baram, who took office in March 2025, set out that trajectory in a strategy paper preparing the army for what he called an intense decade ahead.

    The commitment was made without Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identifying where the money would come from, Haaretz noted, with US aid of $3.8 billion a year expected to shrink and then end entirely in the coming years.

  • UN reveals only three percent of Gaza’s farmland remains usable
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39441

    The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) announced on 18 August that only three percent of Gaza’s cropland remains “accessible and undamaged” according to satellite image analysis.

    The joint assessment with the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) put accessible farmland at 4,091 hectares as of 24 June 2026 – roughly a quarter of Gaza’s total – but found that only 448 hectares had escaped damage. 

    The remaining 3,643 accessible hectares are too badly damaged to plant and will need rehabilitation before any crop can be planted.

    Overall, usable land has contracted by 153 hectares, or 25.5 percent, since October 2025, with Deir al-Balah and Khan Yunis registering the sharpest losses.

  • After the invasion: Who really took Iraq’s oil?
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39302

    The conclusion is not that China ‘stole’ oil that Washington and London had intended to seize. Under the federal model, Iraq’s reserves remain state property. Nor was western power irrelevant. The war opened Iraq to international oil companies, while the dollar system created after the invasion preserved extraordinary US leverage. 

    But the contracts and political conditions did not yield the high-profit field order western majors preferred. Chinese companies, backed by lower costs, strategic patience, and a longer view of energy security, occupied much of the space they left behind.

    Iraq has consequently become a case study in the changing balance of global power. The older image was of western armies clearing a path for western oil companies. 

    Chinese companies have taken a different approach. Both state-owned firms and smaller independents have entered difficult projects offering limited short-term returns. Lower costs, domestic supply chains, Chinese equipment, and extensive engineering capacity have helped them withstand risks that drove several western majors to scale back or leave.

    The invasion’s oil legacy is therefore found less in direct Anglo-American possession of the fields than in the system built around them: an economy still overwhelmingly dependent on crude exports, revenues routed through New York, and an industry opened to foreign capital on terms Baghdad has repeatedly revised.

    Yet the companies most willing to work those fields are increasingly not from the states that invaded Iraq in 2003. They are Chinese – and their rise is one of the clearest signs that the postwar order escaped the hands of its architects.

  • Number of Palestinian children detained without charge by Israel nearly doubles
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39258

    The number of Palestinian children and minors held in administrative detention in Israel “rose sharply” over a recent one-year period, according to newly obtained data from the Israel Prison Service (IPS), the Times of Israel reported on 7 August.

    Between January 2025 and March 2026, the number of children and minors in administrative detention rose from 103 to 191, according to IPS data obtained by the organization Parents Against Child Detention.

  • Israeli occupation troops clear 10 million tons of rubble in Gaza to ’erase evidence’ of genocide
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39245

    Israël efface ses traces à Gaza.

    The Israeli military is conducting an organized operation to clear the rubble from neighborhoods it destroyed in the Gaza Strip, erasing crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble, the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reported on 3 August.

    According to the Palestinian rights group, the Israeli military and civilian contractors have crushed and removed 10 million tons of rubble from their original sites within the areas of Gaza under Israeli occupation and control.

    Tel Aviv is using some 400 pieces of heavy machinery to excavate, demolish, crush, and transport rubble created by Israel’s bombing and demolition of Palestinian homes, apartment blocks, hospitals, schools, and mosques across the strip.

    Nearly 100 Israeli trucks are leaving Gaza daily, carrying rubble to undisclosed sites within Israel and further south of the occupied West Bank.

    Doing so is “destroying crucial evidence of genocide and the remains of victims still unaccounted for under the rubble,” Euro-Med wrote.

  • Israeli occupation forces burn over 120 hectares of centuries-old olive groves in south Lebanon
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39204

    Israeli occupation troops set fire to over 120 hectares (1,200 dunams) of olive groves and fruit orchards in the Lebanese border town of Yaroun in Bint Jbeil District, with the blaze burning for over 36 hours.

    “My heart broke at the sight. Together with several residents, we watched the fields burn until we were in tears,” Hafez Ghacham, municipality chairman of Yaroun, told L’Orient-Le Jour on 3 August.

  • ‘Deeply concerning’: New study shows emigration from Israel hit record high in 2025
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/39142

    The record-high levels of Israeli citizens emigrating from Israel remained the same and did not slow down throughout all of 2025, according to a 3 August study released by Tel Aviv University, which referred to the numbers as “deeply concerning.”

    The new study has cited data from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics.

    According to the study, between 2023 and 2025, 268,509 Israelis fled Israel for trips lasting at least three months.

    Over 90,900 Israelis remained outside Israel for three months straight or more. 

    That came after 91,499 Israelis emigrated for prolonged periods of time in 2024, as well as 86,509 in 2023.

    Annual departures between 2010 and 2019 averaged approximately 60,000 per year. From 2013 to 2015, only 183,219 Israelis left for similar periods. 

    The study was carried out by Tel Aviv University’s Professor Itai Ater. 

    “In 2025, we continue to see deeply concerning numbers of Israelis leaving the country for a significant period of time, adding to the exodus seen in 2023 and 2024,” the professor is quoted as saying in his report.

    “These figures on their own do not yet pose a threat to Israel’s resilience. However, looking ahead – and if there is no change – there is growing concern that emigration will escalate in a manner that endangers Israel’s security and economy,” Ater added. 

    The study expresses serious concern that this trend will continue to worsen, creating a “snowball” effect.

    • L’émigration des médecins et ingénieurs israéliens bat des records

      https://fr.timesofisrael.com/lemigration-des-medecins-et-ingenieurs-israeliens-bat-des-records

      Ce rapport, adossé à l’analyse des niveaux de revenus et des impôts payés par les Israéliens actifs entre 2015 et 2024, montre que jusqu’en 2019, l’impôt sur le revenu cumulé versé par les Israéliens une année avant leur départ s’élevait en moyenne à 500 millions de NIS alors qu’en 2023 et 2024, ce montant était d’1,2 milliard de NIS.

      Les auteurs de l’étude en concluent que la fuite de ces citoyens entraîne une perte de recettes fiscales de l’ordre de 700 millions de NIS chaque année. L’Autorité fiscale israélienne estime que cela ne représente pas une perte immédiate de la totalité des recettes fiscales, car certains émigrants conservent leur statut de résident et continuent de payer des impôts en Israël, même après leur départ.

      Le revenu annuel moyen des émigrants l’année précédant leur départ a augmenté en termes réels de près de 60 %, passant d’environ 125 000 de NIS sur la période 2015-2019 à près de 200 000 de NIS en 2024, enseigne cette étude.

      « Si cette tendance inquiétante se poursuit à ce rythme, d’ici cinq ans, Israël pourrait perdre 3,5 milliards de NIS de recettes fiscales chaque année », expliquent Greizaz et Ben-Tovim.

      Pour un pays dans lequel les 20 % des revenus les plus élevés s’acquittent de 92 % de tout l’impôt sur le revenu, ce changement dans le profil des personnes qui quittent le pays pose un risque stratégique majeur pour les recettes de l’État et la croissance économique.

    • défense du droit de bizutage…

      Soldiers stage mass desertion at IDF base in south after row with their commander | The Times of Israel
      https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/soldiers-stage-mass-desertion-at-idf-base-in-south-after-row-with-the

      Dozens of soldiers from the Givati Brigade’s Tzabar Battalion abandoned their base in southern Israel a short while ago amid a row with their commander, the military says.

      The IDF says the troops deserted the Sde Teiman base, leaving behind their weapons, without the approval of their superiors after the battalion commander decided to take down and destroy signs that had been put up by the soldiers.

      The decorative signs had contained materials that supposedly humiliated rookie soldiers in the unit, according to the army.

      Soldiers claim the signs were “part of our company’s tradition.”

      “The incident is being investigated and handled by the commanders. This is an incident that is inconsistent with the values of the IDF and with what is expected of its soldiers,” the military says.

      Infantry soldiers in the IDF have a history of mass desertion over alleged unfair treatment in the military.

    • Israeli soldiers leave base in protest over removal of memorial display - Shafaq News | Latest breaking news in Iraq and the world
      https://shafaq.com/en/Middle-East/Israeli-soldiers-leave-base-in-protest-over-removal-of-memorial-display

      According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, dozens of soldiers from the Tzabar Battalion of the Givati Brigade left the base while chanting, “To hell with all the officers.”

      In a statement, the Israeli military said, “A short while ago, soldiers from a combat battalion began leaving their base without authorization following the battalion commander’s decision to remove signs,” adding that the incident is under investigation, and commanders are handling the matter.

      Israel’s public broadcaster (KAN) said the soldiers had recently returned from Lebanon, describing the incident as a “mutiny.”

      Maariv newspaper cited a military source as saying the dispute stemmed from attempts by veteran soldiers to impose informal traditions and practices within the Tzabar Battalion, leading to an internal conflict that ended with dozens of soldiers and commanders leaving the base.

      ¿ les bonnes vieilles traditions de bizutage des armées soviétiques et russes ?

  • L’experte de l’ONU, Mme Albanese, affirme que la destitution de M. Khan « s’inscrit parfaitement dans la lutte visant à neutraliser le mandat d’arrêt contre Netanyahu »
    MEE staff - 26 July 2026 - Middle East Eye
    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-expert-albanese-says-khans-removal-lines-neatly-fight-neutralise-n

    La rapporteuse spéciale de l’ONU sur la Palestine, Francesca Albanese, estime que le vote de la CPI concernant Karim Khan « prouve que la justice menace bel et bien l’apartheid israélien »

    La rapporteuse spéciale de l’ONU sur les territoires palestiniens occupés a déclaré samedi que la destitution du procureur général de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI), Karim Khan, ne pouvait être considérée indépendamment de la campagne visant à faire annuler le mandat d’arrêt contre le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahu.

    « La destitution de Khan s’inscrit parfaitement dans la lutte visant à neutraliser le mandat d’arrêt contre Netanyahu.
    La coïncidence est un luxe que le droit international ne peut plus se permettre », a écrit Francesca Albanese sur X.
    « Cela prouve que la justice menace bel et bien l’apartheid israélien et ses acolytes. Ainsi, si la CPI est paralysée, les avocats et les juges du monde entier doivent redoubler d’efforts. »

    La déclaration de Mme Albanese faisait suite à un article paru dans la presse israélienne selon lequel le ministre israélien des Affaires étrangères, Gideon Saar, aurait « joué un rôle actif » dans les efforts visant à destituer M. Khan.

    L’article citait un haut responsable israélien affirmant que « Saar a supervisé un groupe de travail dédié et déployé des efforts diplomatiques intensifs visant à obtenir la destitution de Khan ».

    La décision de Khan de demander des mandats d’arrêt contre Netanyahou et l’ancien ministre de la Défense Yoav Gallant en mai 2024 pour des crimes de guerre présumés à Gaza a déclenché une campagne féroce de menaces et de sanctions à son encontre et à l’encontre de ceux qui soutiennent le travail de la Cour sur la Palestine.

    Albanese, une avocate italienne spécialisée dans les droits humains qui occupe ce poste à l’ONU depuis 2022, réagissait au vote des États membres de la CPI lors d’une session extraordinaire à New York visant à révoquer Khan en raison d’allégations de faute professionnelle.

    Quatre-vingt-deux des 125 États parties à la Cour se sont prononcés en faveur de la destitution lors d’un scrutin à bulletin secret, dépassant ainsi le seuil des 63 voix requises. Treize ont voté contre et 15 se sont abstenus. C’est la première fois qu’un procureur en exercice de la CPI est destitué.

    « Le camp pro-apartheid »
    Albanese avait précédemment accusé un « camp pro-apartheid » de chercher à renverser Khan.

    En mars, après que Middle East Eye eut révélé qu’un groupe de trois experts judiciaires nommés par l’organe de contrôle de la Cour elle-même avait blanchi Khan à l’unanimité, Albanese a écrit que « le camp pro-apartheid s’emploie déjà à le destituer QUOI QU’IL ARRIVE : ceux qui défendent la justice doivent veiller à ce que cette tentative échoue ».

    Le groupe d’experts a estimé que les conclusions des enquêteurs de l’ONU « n’établissaient pas de faute professionnelle ni de manquement à ses obligations au regard du cadre applicable ».

    Le Bureau de l’Assemblée des États parties, un organe exécutif composé de 21 diplomates, a voté quelques semaines plus tard pour écarter cette conclusion.

    MEE a révélé ce mois-ci que le Bureau avait également modifié les règles de vote, fusionnant un vote prévu en deux étapes en une seule motion et abaissant le seuil effectif requis pour la destitution.

    Mme Albanese a été sanctionnée par l’administration de Donald Trump en juillet 2025, quelques jours après avoir publié un rapport citant plus de 60 entreprises qui, selon elle, tiraient profit de l’occupation israélienne.

    Khan a été le premier responsable de la CPI désigné en vertu du même décret, en février 2025, en raison des mandats d’arrêt demandés contre Netanyahu et Gallant.

    Onze responsables de la CPI avaient été sanctionnés à la fin de l’année dernière, parmi lesquels des procureurs adjoints et plusieurs juges ayant statué contre Israël.

    Les mandats d’arrêt contre Netanyahu et Gallant restent en vigueur et ne peuvent être retirés que par des juges.
    Israël réclame l’abandon de ces mandats.

    S’exprimant avant que le licenciement du procureur ne soit officiellement confirmé, Saar a appelé la Cour à lever les mandats d’arrêt contre les responsables israéliens, réitérant l’argument d’Israël – déjà réfuté – selon lequel ceux-ci auraient été délivrés à la hâte pour détourner l’attention des allégations d’inconduite sexuelle.

    « Ces mandats, délivrés à l’encontre d’un pays qui n’est même pas membre de la CPI, n’auraient jamais dû être demandés et devraient être révoqués immédiatement », a-t-il écrit sur X.

    Depuis que les mandats ont été délivrés par les juges d’instruction en novembre 2024, Israël a lancé une série de recours juridiques visant à les invalider.
    Deux d’entre eux sont toujours en instance, notamment l’argument d’Israël selon lequel la Cour n’a aucune compétence sur ses ressortissants, Israël n’étant pas un État partie au Statut de Rome.

    Le bureau du procureur est désormais dirigé par les procureurs adjoints Nazhat Shameem Khan et Mame Mandiaye Niang, tous deux sanctionnés par les États-Unis en août en vertu du même décret présidentiel qui visait Albanese et Khan.

    À la suite du vote de destitution, le bureau du procureur de la CPI a publié un communiqué indiquant que son travail se poursuivrait sans interruption.

    Des élections visant à désigner un nouveau procureur devraient suivre, mais aucun calendrier n’a encore été annoncé par l’organe directeur de la Cour.

    #CPI

  • Wall Street in ’panic’ over Saudi–UAE rift as financial firms prepare ’contingency plans’: Report
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/38770

    The report explains that such major firms have for years expanded across both Saudi and Emirati markets – which combined make up more than $3 trillion in sovereign wealth. 

    Gulf states have spent billions in AI, finance, and infrastructure sectors over the past several years.

    “Concerns are running high enough for some global investment banks and even officials within at least one regional government to run internal assessments to decide how they would respond if the economic rivalry worsens,” the report states. 

    The executives cited by Bloomberg said they do not expect “a direct confrontation” between Saudi Arabia and the UAE, but warned that companies are “concerned they might be forced to make harder choices between Riyadh or Abu Dhabi moving forward as both sides grow more assertive.”

  • CPJ reviews removal of four Palestinian journalists killed by Israel from Gaza casualty database: Report
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/38691

    The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is reconsidering the removal of at least four Palestinian journalists and media workers from its Gaza casualty database following criticism that this may exclude Palestinians killed during Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Electronic Intifada (EI) reported on 7 July.

    According to exclusive information obtained by EI, current and former CPJ insiders say the organization is considering changing its definition of who qualifies as a journalist, noting that the review risks narrowing protections for Palestinian media workers. 

    CPJ previously removed 20 names from its database of media casualties after reviewing new information, including eight individuals accused of ties to Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

  • Saudi Arabia blocking payments to Emirati banks: Report
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/3867

    Saudi Arabia has delayed or blocked financial transfers to accounts in the UAE, raising concerns that tensions between the two Gulf states could worsen, according to a 7 July report.

    Sources told the Financial Times (FT) that transfers from Saudi banks to UAE accounts – belonging to businesses and individuals – have been returned or held up since May, usually without any reason given.

    “Saudi Arabia is blocking or delaying financial remittances sent from domestic banks to UAE accounts,” the report says.

    • Saudi Arabia blocking payments to UAE accounts, businesses say
      https://www.ft.com/content/07d5de48-468d-4ba9-ab82-dcfeef5f0dae

      The kingdom accused the UAE — which had been its main partner in a Saudi-led coalition that intervened in Yemen’s civil war in 2015 to fight Iranian-backed Houthis — of threatening its national security interests by backing the offensive.

      That crisis triggered the biggest rupture between the Gulf neighbours in decades and exacerbated long-simmering tensions over economic competition and differences over their approaches to conflicts in the region.

      The US and Israel’s war against Iran initially appeared to ease the spat as Gulf states sought to put on a unified front after they became the main target of the Islamic republic’s retaliation.

      But analysts say it merely papered over the cracks, and in late April, the UAE shocked its neighbours by announcing it was leaving Opec, the oil cartel of which Saudi Arabia is the de facto leader.

      The UAE — which was Opec’s third-largest producer — insisted the move was related to its “economic vision and evolving energy profile”. But Abu Dhabi had long been frustrated with production quotas imposed by Opec and the decision was viewed as dealing a blow to Saudi Arabia.

  • Marwan Barghouti to run for Palestinian presidency from inside Israeli prison : Report
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/38618

    A Palestinian source told Sky News Arabia that Barghouti “has informed his lawyer that he intends to run for the presidency of the Palestinian Authority in elections scheduled for the first quarter of next year.”

    “He is determined to contest the presidency and has no intention of withdrawing his candidacy if the presidential elections are held,” the source added. 

    The source said that Washington and the EU have urged Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to hold both legislative and presidential elections simultaneously. 

    This would run contrary to “previous plans that called for legislative elections in November of this year and presidential elections in the first quarter of next year.”

  • Lebanon demands ’exclusion’ from Iran–US deal amid nonstop Israeli attacks
    https://thecradle.co/articles-id/38617

    Selon un journaliste libanais, les autorités libanaises insistent pour ne pas faire partie du comité conjoint USA/Iran visant au respect du cessez-le-feu au Liban.

    “The authority’s refusal to appoint a representative for Lebanon in the joint US–Iranian–Lebanese committee to monitor the ceasefire delays the committee’s start of operations,” Sweidan went on to say. 

    This “deconfliction cell” reportedly aims to sideline Israel and include Iran, and potentially other regional states – in effect replacing an older mechanism which included Tel Aviv, the US, France, and the Lebanese government. 

    The old mechanism gave Israel cover to violate the November 2024 ceasefire for more than a year.