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Hezbollah has especially close relations with Iran, [5] with the Alawite leadership in Syria, specifically with President Hafez al-Assad (until his death in 2000) and his son and successor Bashar al-Assad, [6] and has sent fighters in support of Assad in the Syrian Civil War. Hezbollah declared its support for the now-concluded Al-Aqsa Intifada.
The IDF struck 15 Radwan targets in al-Lwaiza, southern Lebanon, [313] and a Hezbollah compound in Sefri, near Baalbek. Lebanese media said that the strike destroyed a factory and injured three people. [314] [315] On 8 May, Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed two Hezbollah and three PIJ members. [316]
The Shin Bet and the Israel Police arrested and charged a 19-year-old Nazareth resident of spying for Hezbollah during the war. [101] Israeli police arrested four Israeli civilians for illegally entering into Lebanon. [102] The IDF said that it demolished Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon aimed towards Israel. [103]
Israeli airstrikes targeted Hezbollah weapons sites in southern Lebanon on Monday. More than 550 people were killed and 1,800 injured as the Israel-Hezbollah conflict escalates. Photos reveal ...
The strike on Wadi al-Kfour in Nabatieh province is among the deadliest in Lebanon since the Hezbollah militant group and Israeli military started trading strikes on Oct. 8, a day after Hamas ...
Hezbollah has also been very active to prevent rebel penetration from Syria to Lebanon, being one of the most active forces in the Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon. In the past, Hezbollah has served a strategic arm of Iran in the region, allegedly playing a key role in the Iran-Israel and Iran-Saudi Arabia proxy conflicts in the middle east.
Israel launched a ground incursion that risks repeating its past mistakes in Lebanon. Israel's 15-year occupation across Lebanon's border ended as a quagmire akin to the US's Vietnam.
A July 2006 USA Today/Gallup poll found that 83% of the 1,005 Americans polled blamed Hezbollah, at least in part, for the 2006 Lebanon War, compared to 66% who blamed Israel to some degree. Additionally, 76% disapproved of the military action Hezbollah took in Israel, compared to 38% who disapproved of Israel's military action in Lebanon. [ 389 ]