Lebanon, Hezbollah and Israel
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Critics fear a U.N. Security Council resolution authored by France could leave a current system in place in southern Lebanon despite years of failures to curb Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is sharply criticizing the Lebanese government’s decision to begin a process aiming to disarm the Iran-backed group this year, saying it “fully achieves” neighboring Israel’s interests.
The Lebanese government has asked the national army to prepare a plan to ensure only state institutions have weapons by the end of the year.
The Associated Press published a piece on Wednesday interviewing victims of Israel’s widespread pager attack against Hezbollah terrorists in September.
The visit by Ali Larijani, the head of Iran’s top security body, came as the Lebanese government moves to disarm Hezbollah, the militant group that has long been Tehran’s most powerful regional ally.
Hezbollah senior commanders were the target of the strikes, according to a senior Israeli official, who said it was too early to confirm if the group's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, had been killed.
The highly successful IDF invasion of southern Lebanon led by Gordin found that had Hezbollah decided to invade Israel on October 7 at the same time as Hamas, it was so stocked with weapons that it likely could have conquered large portions of the Galilee.
Has Hezbollah fought Israel before? Yes. In 2006, the group fought a bloody war that lasted for 34 days and left sections of Beirut, and other parts of Lebanon, leveled by Israeli airstrikes.