to at least withdraw their forces from the southern border area to an area north of the litani riverll better to actually disarm their forces so that israel no longer sees a military threat along its northern border? we certainly, stephen, from an economic impact from the minister of trade, i can tell you the country and the country's national economy at some point in 2023, before the war started, we began with the same some development, seeing some improvement, despite the fact that we still have long ways to go for true reforms and for talking, really, about the recovery in the economy. but there is no doubt, as you just stated, that this war has weighed very heavily on the economy. losses on the major sectors including agriculture, including tourism recruited two major sectors that were still pumping some oxygen into the economy for the past few years — now are assessed in losses in the billions of dollars. the minister of agriculture alone announced that the losses in the agriculture sector are between $2—3 billion. we did an assessment, a brief assessment on the impact of the to

hezbollah fighters who are along the border in southern lebanon would be pulled back to north of the litani riveraven't had much success in this regard. and we understand that the israelis are getting impatient government benjamin netanyahu is under intense pressure from the tens of thousands of israelis who have fled. good, their homes in the northern part of the country. and therefore increasingly, there are messages being sent that israel's tolerance is wearing thin and that they could launch some sort of operation in the southern part of the country to try to drive his butler out. but if we go back to history in 2006 there was a more than month-long war between israel and hezbollah. israel was really failed in achieving its objective of destroying his butler. and there's no reason to believe that it wouldn't be the same if israel to work through launch a similar military operation today, >> alex. all right. then we'd have been beirut. thanks very much. christiane >> it's an important point, as we said, that war in 2006, which we both covered at best was fought to a draw with hezbollah, a war

dangle, whether they be weapons packages, maybe a true effort to push his bullet north of the litani river in lebanon. in other words, the us i think has its work cut out for it in terms of just simply trying to appeal to what the israelis need right now, if the goal is indeed to get them to stand down yeah. >> i mean, not a lot of great options for the international community watching all of this in terms of contemplating what israel might ultimately decide to do, kernel leighton, what do you think israel wanted to strike back at around but doing it in a way that did not trigger an automatic very aggressive response from the iranians. what might they do yeah, that's very interesting question, jim, i think in that particular case, they will always get some kind of a response from the iranians. >> but if they wanted to go as small or mild, i would say it would be something like a cyber attack, but limited cyber attack would be something that would probably affect say, the military networks that iran uses or attentionally, the nuclear networks. and of course, the uranian know a lot about hav

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