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Hezbollah Threatens To Strike Israeli Gas Production Facilities

• Zero Hedge

A dispute between Lebanon and Israel over offshore drilling rights has devolved into threats against Israeli natural gas facilities leveled by the leader of Lebanese political and militant group Hezbollah. 

"All fields are under threat...no Israeli target at sea or on land is out of the reach of the resistance's precision missiles," said Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in a Tuesday night interview. 

While Israel and Lebanon have no diplomatic relations -- and are officially at war ever since Israel's 1948 inception -- the U.S. government has been brokering indirect talks over the maritime border dispute for nearly two years. At stake: A share of many billion dollars in revenue from a potentially gas-rich area in the Eastern Mediterranean off the coasts of the two countries.