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Hezbollah (/ ˌhɛzbəˈlɑː /; [44] Arabic: حزب الله, romanized: Ḥizbu 'llāh, pronounced [ħizbu‿lːaːh], lit. 'Party of God') [a] is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party, military - resistance organization, that also provides social welfare and religious education services. [45] Hezbollah is a key player in the Lebanese ...
Hezbollah–Israel conflict. Exchange of strikes between Israel and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been occurring along the Israel–Lebanon border and in Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since 8 October 2023. It is currently the largest escalation of the Hezbollah–Israel conflict to have occurred since the 2006 Lebanon ...
The Israeli–Lebanese conflict, or the South Lebanon conflict, [4] is a series of military clashes involving Israel, Lebanon and Syria, the Palestine Liberation Organization, as well as various militias and militants acting from within Lebanon. The conflict peaked in the 1980s, during the Lebanese Civil War. Israel occupied Southern Lebanon ...
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged the fire of thousands of rockets, forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes. With the Israeli strikes on Lebanon being particularly intense, leaving more ...
Hezbollah is one of the most heavily-armed, non-state military forces in the world. It is funded and equipped by Iran. Hassan Nasrallah has claimed that it has 100,000 fighters, although ...
In a 1985 manifesto, Hezbollah expressed its goal of expelling Western forces from the Middle East and driving Israeli forces out of Lebanon. Hezbollah operates as a "state within a state ...
v. t. e. Hezbollah originated within the Shiite block of Lebanese society. According to the CIA World Factbook estimate in 2022, Shiites comprise 31.2 percent of Lebanon's population, [1] predominating in three areas of Lebanon: Southern Lebanon, Beirut and its environs (Dahieh), and the northern Beqaa valley region.
Lebanon's Hezbollah has been exchanging fire with Israeli forces across the border since its Palestinian ally Hamas in Gaza and Israel went to war on Oct. 7. The violence on the frontier between ...