Lebanon: Geagea Says Situation is Open to All Possibilities

Samir Geagea, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces party, speaks to an AFP journalist, during an interview at his residence in Maarab, north of the capital Beirut, on May 20, 2022. (Photo by JOSEPH EID / AFP)

Lebanese Forces chief Samir Geagea described the situation in Lebanon as “extremely mysterious” amid a deteriorating security situation in the South of the country between Israel and Hezbollah, the Arab World Press said on Friday.
In remarks published by Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, Geagea said that the “situation in Lebanon is unstable, it is open to all possibilities since the October 7 events".
The Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7 after Hamas stormed into southern Israel. 
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been embroiled in nearly daily exchanges of shelling with Israel across Lebanon's southern border since the Gaza war began.
The LF leader stated that the repercussions of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza have reached all the way to the Red Sea shipping lanes, and to the assassination of Hamas official Saleh Arouri in Beirut, and the Iran explosion at a memorial in the city of Kerman on Wednesday for top commander Qassem Soleimani.
Since late October, the Houthis have launched scores of one-way attack drones and missiles at commercial vessels transiting the Red Sea.
On Tuesday, a suspected Israeli strike on Beirut killed top Hamas operative Saleh Arouri in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
On Hezbollah, Geagea said it seems that the party “does not want to engage in a war, but only wants to garner internal gains, while Iran wants to garner additional gains at the regional level”.