Middle East Eye – June 26, 2026
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz have said that troops will maintain an indefinite presence in southern Lebanon, Syria and the Gaza Strip.
They were both speaking at a graduation for combat officers in southern Israel on Thursday.
Images from October 2023 and December 2025, reveal a new Israeli base to the right of the image adjacent to the existing UN base at Labbouneh. Click to enlarge
“We dominate southern Lebanon, from the summit of the Beaufort, and we will remain as long as required in the security zone,” Netanyahu said. “We do not intend to withdraw from it.”
Katz said: “The Israeli military will remain in the security zones in Lebanon, in Syria and in Gaza without any time limit.”
He said that Israel opposed withdrawal from Lebanon “despite all the pressures that exist and those that are yet to come”
“There is another important message, which I hope is clearly understood in Tehran: if Iran attacks Israel because of our activities in Lebanon, or for any other reason, we will strike it with full force in a way that will clearly demonstrate the gap in power between us,” the defence minister added.
Their comments come after Middle East Eye earlier this month revealed how Israel had built a line of millitary bases stretching through southern Lebanon and Syria which appeared to suggest an intent to remain in territory seized since 2024.
On Friday, the Israeli military continued operations across southern Lebanon, with Lebanon’s National News Agency reporting that troops bulldozed and burned homes in the town of Markaba.
The report said that air strikes killed two people in Mayfadoun and wounded another, citing the country’s health ministry.
A separate strike was also reported in Nabatieh al-Fawqa.
The Israeli military said four soldiers, including two officers, were injured during what it described as a close-quarters clash with a Hezbollah fighter in Beit Yahun. It said the fighter threw a grenade before being killed in an exchange of fire.
Israeli forces have killed at least 4,230 people in Lebanon since re-launching hostilities in early March, days after the US-Israeli war on Iran began.
Daily Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon have killed scores of people, despite a ceasefire having been agreed a week ago.
Meanwhile in Syria, Israel continues to occupy the strategic heights of Mount Hermon, which overlooks Israel, Lebanon and Syria.
Israeli forces seized that territory, which had been a UN buffer zone, as Bashar al-Assad’s government fell in December 2024
Speaking at a graduation for combat officers in southern Israel on Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Israel Katz said that forces will maintain an indefinite presence in southern Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip pic.twitter.com/A4V3dCiclY
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It has not left the area since, and Israeli forces have also carried out more than 1,000 air strikes and 400 ground incursions, according to Syrian authorities.
Meanwhile, senior Israeli security officials met on Tuesday to discuss the possibility of expelling Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, despite repeated previous failures to advance such plans, according to Haaretz.
‘Voluntary’ emigration
The Israeli daily reported that Shmuel Ben Ezra, head of the National Security Council, convened an urgent meeting with defence officials to discuss what was described as “encouraging voluntary emigration” from Gaza.
Officials from the Israeli army, Shin Bet and Mossad were among those invited.
During the meeting, Mossad representatives reportedly said the intelligence agency has not identified any country willing to accept Palestinians from Gaza.
Last month, Netanyahu ordered the army to occupy 70 percent of the Gaza Strip, in clear violation of an October ceasefire.
At the time the ceasefire came into effect, Israeli forces controlled around 53 percent of Gaza, including large areas in the north, south and east of the enclave.
Since then, the Israeli military has expanded its control to roughly 60 percent of the territory.
A further expansion to 70 percent would confine Gaza’s 2.2 million Palestinians to just 109 square kilometres of land.
Israel has killed more than 73,000 people since the genocide began in October 2023, and wounded more than 173,000 others.
Since the ceasefire was agreed in October last year, Israeli forces have killed at least 1,024 people in Gaza and wounded a further 3,260.
Moshe Solomons said on radio
there will be mass expulsions as israel reclaims its land
and both Iran and Turkey will have to be cleared over the the UK ireland and europe
we the people say NO
Crowley is King
The following speak of the forces involved and their plan:
Similar to Satan entering Judas Iscariot’s heart to take control of his mind sealed by his accepting 30 pieces of silver payment from the predecessors of the Khazarian Mafia (KM), the Pharisees, so have these two partaken of their gold to do their bidding. It is not just them but UK Parliament and the US Congress and Senate as well. The IM’s ultra-wealthy merchants who own the worldwide news media say nothing but retorical questions or ignorances toward the KM’s heinous abuses.
The following explains why that the attack and capture of Lebanon’s properties is done openly without any to save the area Arabs, who were born in the image of G-d (Genesis 9:6). According to Should the State of Israel be defascistized?:
Salam is Netanyahu’s lackey. According to
The mountain of Iran has responded. Through diplomacy, Iran has issued an ultimatum by its Memorandum of Agreement with US-IL signed by US. Israel thus far has ignored it. Similar to the Gentiles dismantling Khazaria in A.D. 1250, the KM will only understand –
Despite Gog (KM, e.g., Netanyahu, Katz and the Club of the Isles) and its minions (Zionist Israelis – not all Jews are included, and Christian Zionists) rearing their ugly mugs, G-d has taken note and will be glorified soon:
My dear fools. This is all very elementary.
The majority Ashkenazis will remain there until they are kicked out, and the rest of the world has to unite against the Rothschild dynasty, their controls of the central bank system in each of our nations, their own corrupt governments, and the entire Zio doner class to do that. This all part of their long-range plans to make Israel THE major trade hub not just for the Middle East but to control all major chokepoints and BRI silk-road routes in and out of the Middle East but also as the “nexus” of all major trade routes to and from Asia, Africa, and Europe. It is this ruthless money-power which has deliberately imposed their debt-rigging controls over each of our nations to control them, and mainly through their off-shore looting of them mainly with free trade with low-cost labor nations since the 1970’s. They plan these things, as we ought to know, 50 to 100 years in advance.
Most of the leading opposition we see to Israel is totally controlled opposition, including that which we hear with many of the leading alt-media types in the US. The international-Jewish big shots running things never bother to work out the fine details. They always just give their agents orders as to what they want done, allegedly keeping “clean hands”, but knowing that their agents have to use any means they can get away with to satisfy the desires of their real masters.
For instance, for something like the Greater Israel Project, we KNOW that has been a long-term plan of international Jewry together with the Rothschild dynasty. This is not “conspiracy theory”. Once they got their foot in the door in the Middle East, and well established by hook and crook with their upper-echelon deals with the major powers such as Russia, China, the UK, France and the US, and with Arab sheiks, and the rest of the billionaire class firmly under their bloody thumbs, they simply give the okay to do whatever was necessary to complete their vision.
Genocide, mass murder, ethnic cleansings, and all of the land grabs are being done by their various agent henchmen and governments. Whatever other land grabs and invasions are required to fulfill their plans they will never acknowledge.
The alt media people with the biggest followings, as earnest as some of their popular hosts appear, is generally very slow to catch up with what is really going on. Most of the people may be “smart”, meaning their minds are relative “fast”, but they they are very slow in connecting the dots. They are generally more so up with particular trees in the forest that they become unable to see the forest, and what else is really lurking in it.
Gaza was “necessary” to them because they had to provoke hostilities with Hezbollah and Iran as the PRETEXT to start the war with Iran in order to INVADE Lebanon. Tucker has just “got that” this week. But he was also very slow in connecting the dots even to “suspect” that 9/11 was an inside job, and that Israel was somehow involved. Meanwhile, and in order to give the US some “grace” on the world stage Thomas Massie is blowing his load over the sinking of the USS Liberty by Israel some 60 or 70 years ago. A bit slow in the uptake, don’t you think Thomas?
Then, of course, we have the convenient war in the Ukraine in which with constant well-timed provocations and other controls, Russia is conveniently gobbling up that nation, very much as if the US and the rest of the West while apparently “at war” with Russia still keeps buying its resources, while pretending to fight it. Sure there are people on both sides dying, but you cannot just “give” the Russians the Ukraine in exchange for it abandoning Syria just like every other nation they have abandoned in the Middle East. No, if the agent powers of the supreme money power were to sit down and just draw new borders on their maps for the exchanges, the people who happen to live in those nations would end up fighting not just against the dupe soldiers on the other side, but they would also hunt down and kill all of the stooges, and deal makers drawing the new maps. Neither the Syrians or the Ukrainians wanted to see their nations destroyed, and so to keep them happy they both got real wars which cover the tracks of the nefarious geopolitical dealmakers.
Iran is even suspect (not the people of Iran, Syria, Gaza, or the Ukraine, but the actual potentates and people closest to the Rothschild thumbs) and those in Iran who made all of the deals for the BRI running through Iran and who have been promised billions ought to be the real suspects.
“”Russia getting most of the Ukraine in exchange for abandoning Syria and likely also Iran as the war continues???” Well, I haven’t heard that before.”‘, people will say, or “Don’t you know that nothing is really planned. Things just happen, you know. Don’t we have to ignore things like the fact that Israel has greater ties to Russia than it has with the US?””
Nevertheless, the plans in the works obviously call for the clearing of the lands of the people to make Greater Israel Project happen, and our governments, all of which are puppets of the usurping same money power, have dutifully agreed to open their borders to all of the survivors who are herded into the culture-shocked nations at the behest of all of the traitorous puppet governments and fake NGO’s under the same controls.
The US controllers have no intention of making peace in the Middle East. They have to keep the war going for the pretext of the further Zio land grabs in Lebanon.
its time now that the arabs showed spine :
Saudi arabs, Turkey, Egypt,Pakistan (STEP)
formed a military aliance (sunni Mohammed
Aliance) . an islamic Nato and Pakistan brings
its nukes in , Saudis Oil,Turkey technic know how .
USA NOT MORE NEEDED step by step !
Venezuela earthquake rescue team of UK volunteers is left stranded at airport for more than 24 hours
Story by Caitlin Leng • 6h •i hope they get treated well volunteers going to palestine risk getting killed by the dirty jew
Finding a spine will be difficult because just as Iran learned, the governments have been infiltrated by the Khazarian Mafia (KM). For example, Egypt, see Israeli ambassador calls Al-Sisi a “national hero for all Jews” by Middle East Monitor | 19 July 2013:
This is why Al-Sisi had no problem overthrowing and murdering the democratically elected government and its followers. This is also why he turns a blind eye to Israel’s murder and abuse of the Palestinians and other Arab’s. Similar to other KM puppets, he is a traitor to freedom.
Here is more background. Al-Sisi’s a Jew! Egypt is Now Israeli-Occupied Territory by Veterans Today | September 16, 2013:
The following explains Mossad’s long term involvement infiltrating Syria, article continued:
The House of Saud is crypto Jewish. This is why they attacked Yemeni Arabs and murdered them without remorse and with the blessing of Israel. Reference this researcher’s article, Is The ‘Saudi’ Royal Family Jewish?. Starting around 1441 A.D.:
This is only a small snippet of history, there is more as to how the King of Arabia was overthrown to make Saudi Arabia, but it shows that the Synagogue of Satan is heavily entwined in these countries. It is why Iran had no problem with bombing US and Israeli assets used to attack them from these countries. The recent attack on a Singapore tanker that Trump blames Iran for appears to have Mossad fingerprints.