Exclusive JNews Lebanon
Military and political collapses are accelerating rapidly across the Lebanese arena, placing the country in the eye of a storm unseen in both the South and the capital, Beirut, for months. The calculations of a fiery battlefield have intertwined with the backrooms of the Israeli War Cabinet, producing breathless nighttime hours under the imminent threat of a devastating strike targeting the Southern Suburbs of Beirut (Dahieh).
Cross-referenced data obtained exclusively by JNews Lebanon reveals that Dahieh experienced a night of maximum alert. This included stringent precautionary security measures and temporary midnight evacuations of vital headquarters and central hubs in anticipation of imminent military escalation.
This mobilization followed leaks from a restricted Security Cabinet session chaired by Benjamin Netanyahu. During the meeting, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of General Staff, Eyal Zamir, explicitly demanded striking targets in the very heart of Beirut. The demand came in direct retaliation for a wave of Hezbollah kamikaze drones that exploded inside a military base and a town in the Western Galilee, as well as Metula, scoring direct hits.
Ben Gvir’s Guillotine
This Hebrew military frenzy was accompanied by glaring political madness spearheaded by National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. In a highly escalatory tone, Ben Gvir publicly called for officially notifying US President Donald Trump that Israel is returning with full momentum to a state of “heavy and open warfare” in Lebanon, refusing to normalize the reality of explosive suicide drones.
According to JNews Lebanon’s monitoring of the internal Israeli deliberations, Ben Gvir’s proposal shattered standard thresholds. He openly called for the immediate occupation of Dahieh and cutting off electricity entirely from all Lebanese territories.
Hezbollah attempted to exploit this Israeli political surge by swiftly leaning into Tehran’s virtual promises and assurances that Iran would secure a ceasefire for Lebanon as part of its broader regional package deal with Washington. However, this maneuver triggered a severe, adverse military reaction on the ground, instantly multiplying the belts of fire over southern villages, which are now witnessing the complete erasure of landmarks and systematic destruction threatening a re-occupation of land and a re-mapping of border geography.
The Backrooms of the Threat
Politically, JNews Lebanon has learned from sources deeply connected to Hezbollah the behind-the-scenes details of the group’s rapid retreat from its threats of street mobilization. This rollback occurred after Sheikh Naim Qassem’s rhetoric regarding toppling the government caused a diplomatic earthquake.
The group’s media apparatus scrambled to justify the stance, framing it strictly as a “purely political warning.” The sources revealed that behind closed doors, desperate attempts had taken place within the Council of Ministers over the past two weeks to enact severe legal and financial decisions, including the confiscation of assets belonging to the Al-Qard Al-Hassan association.
According to Hezbollah sources, high-level political communications and the physical presence of the group’s ministers at the Grand Serail were what blocked these moves, which some factions continue to push for under the cover and sword of American pressure.
However, this internal justification immediately collided with a decisive and rigid US veto formulated by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Rubio issued an urgent, stern warning to Hezbollah, declaring that the era of turning Lebanon into a hostage has effectively come to an end, and that the legitimate government of Lebanon enjoys absolute and total support from the US administration against any political or military bullying.
Mufti Deryan’s Blessed Awakening and the Inevitable Salvation Talks
In the midst of this open defiance, a historic and courageous stance emerged from the Grand Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan, providing a decisive religious and national cover for the legitimate options of the state. Mufti Deryan boldly criticized the catastrophic, imported military adventure policies, noting that relying on failed, destructive methods consistently results in the devastation of the country and the erasure of villages.
The Mufti openly welcomed the Lebanese state’s recourse to direct negotiations to secure a ceasefire and remove the occupier, describing it as a heroic political and religious act that saves what remains and ensures the return of the people of the South to their towns. He asserted that anyone who views negotiation as a capitulation is deeply delusional, because the supreme interest of the Lebanese people lies in stopping the waterfall of blood and killing, calling for a comprehensive national awakening of conscience.
This heavy-weight religious backing directly reinforces the cards held by the Lebanese military delegation heading to the Pentagon on May 29. It proves to both domestic and international observers that the option of negotiating under American auspices—and restricting weapons exclusively to the hands of the Lebanese Army—is the only inevitable path and the final opportunity to extract a rescue framework. This is the last chance to pull Lebanon out of the tunnel of catastrophe and prevent the scissors of sanctions and missiles from uprooting the very fabric of the state.
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